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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. Lugubrious

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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


2. Quasar

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


3. Suffragist

To show servile deference.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

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

Architectural.


4. Deciduous

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

To bring under control; conquer.


5. Photosynthesis

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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.


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