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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

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. To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Interpolate

Sanguine

Metamorphosis

Totalitarian


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

Lugubrious

Kowtow

Thermodynamics

Winnow


3. Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

Equinox

Pecuniary

Omnipotent

Jejune


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

Jejune

Chromosome

Oligarchy

Quasar


5. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Infrastructure

Diffident

Obsequious

Orthography


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