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BACKLOT

DEFINITION:
An area behind or adjoining a movie studio containing permanent exterior buildings for outdoor scenes in filmmaking or television productions.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who serves the 4th District, makes her way across an empty, unnamed backlot, presenting her case to be the city’s next mayor.
►The Los Angeles Times, 05/18/2026

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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. Fiduciary

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

2. Reparation

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

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

3. Tectonic

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

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

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

► Architectural.

4. Abjure

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► Logical incongruity

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

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

5. Chicanery

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

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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.