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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

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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. Facetious

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► 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.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

2. Lugubrious

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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

► Logical incongruity

3. Bellicose

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

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► Of or relating to money

4. Supercilious

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

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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

5. Parameter

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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

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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.