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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. Omnipotent

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

2. Irony

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

3. Chicanery

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

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

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

4. Polymer

► A diligent, dependable worker.

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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

5. Mitosis

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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