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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.
This Week's Word In The News 

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

Words in the News Quiz
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. Yeoman

Clear to the understanding.

A diligent, dependable worker.

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.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


2. Wrought

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Everyday; commonplace.

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

Put together; created.


3. Kinetic

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


4. Filibuster

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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


5. Omnipotent

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


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