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PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
►The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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5 High School Words

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1. Subjugate

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

► To bring under control; conquer.

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

2. Lugubrious

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

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

3. Contradiction

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

► 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.

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

► Logical incongruity

4. Circumlocution

► Put together; created.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

5. Filibuster

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

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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.