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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 

PETITIONER

DEFINITION:
A person who pleads with a governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through the use of a petition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While presenting the citizens’ petition for debate at the April 11 Spring Town Meeting, petitioners argued that ICE operations in Plymouth have “created fear” and “disrupted lives” among the immigrant community, leading to what they call a distrust of local police.
►The Boston Herald, 04/20/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Detritus

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

2. Enervate

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

3. Gamete

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

► 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.

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

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

4. Fatuous

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► To show servile deference.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

5. Nomenclature

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► A system of names used in an art or science:

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