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OVERZEALOUS

DEFINITION:
Showing too much energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Patrolmen’s Association, the city’s largest police union, attributed the encounter to an “overzealous poll worker who was complaining to the officer that the councilor shouldn’t have even been inside.”
►The Boston Herald, 11/17/2025

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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. Thermodynamics

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

2. Incontrovertible

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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

3. Hypotenuse

► Logical incongruity

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► To show servile deference.

4. Euro

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

5. Parabola

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

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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

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

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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.