Words in the News

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

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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. Homogeneous

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

2. Fatuous

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

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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

3. Hypotenuse

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

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

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

4. Reparation

► 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.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

5. Bowdlerize

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

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

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

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

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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.