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Common Core State Standard
LS.CCS.4/5/6 Grades 3-12: Students are asked to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words through multiple choice vocabulary quizzes. Quizzes are designed to help students demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in words, acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words, and gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. Students are then asked to find the words within the newspaper and copy the sentence for context to its overall meaning or function in a sentence.
This Week's Word In The News 

PETITIONER

DEFINITION:
A person who pleads with a governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through the use of a petition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While presenting the citizens’ petition for debate at the April 11 Spring Town Meeting, petitioners argued that ICE operations in Plymouth have “created fear” and “disrupted lives” among the immigrant community, leading to what they call a distrust of local police.
The Boston Herald, 04/20/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!


1. Oxidize

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


2. Winnow

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.


3. Soliloquy

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


4. Vacuous

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


5. Infrastructure

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


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