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PIGMENT

DEFINITION:
A substance that imparts black, white, or a color to other materials.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Pea-soup green pigment floated where the water met the shore on Eagle Nest Lake on Tuesday, while bright, turquoise pigment stained the south boat ramp.
►The Albuquerque Journal, 10/27/2025

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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. Lugubrious

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

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

2. Equinox

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

► Architectural.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► A part, portion, or share.

3. Yeoman

► A part, portion, or share.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► A diligent, dependable worker.

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

4. Gerrymander

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

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

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

5. Feckless

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

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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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.