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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

MITIGATION

DEFINITION:
The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
But after years of record investment by the state in such wildfire risk mitigation, two key money sources are drying up, potentially reducing the state’s annual budget for vegetation removal by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Los Angeles Times, 06/01/2026

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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. Jejune

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Tumultuous; stormy.

Not interesting; dull:

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


2. Evanescent

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

The lowest point

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

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


3. Tautology

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

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


4. Plasma

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


5. Polymer

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Logical incongruity

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


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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.