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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 

DEPLETE

DEFINITION:
To use up or consume a limited resource.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Councilor Brian Worrell is sounding off after a Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled that if the footage became public before trial, it would deplete the jury pool in the manslaughter case against Boston police officer Nick O’Malley.
The Boston Herald, 07/27/2026

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. Temblor

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Of or relating to money

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


2. Auspicious

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

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Tumultuous; stormy.


3. Notarize

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.


4. Interpolate

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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


5. Paradigm

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

Everyday; commonplace.

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

The lowest point


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