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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. Photosynthesis

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.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


2. Parameter

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Architectural.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


3. Vortex

Very talkative; garrulous.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Put together; created.

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


4. Paradigm

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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


5. Antebellum

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


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