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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

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5 High School Words

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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. Lexicon

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

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

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

2. Parabola

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

3. Gerrymander

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► Everyday; commonplace.

4. Incognito

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► Everyday; commonplace.

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

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

5. Mitosis

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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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.