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DISABILITY

DEFINITION:
A physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain tasks or participate in daily activities.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The agreement last week between Disability-rights groups and Secretary of State Shirley Weber follows an Oct. 2 ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of San Francisco that the current system violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws.
►San Francisco Chronicle, 11/02/2026

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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. Hemoglobin

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

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

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

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

2. Expurgate

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

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

► Tumultuous; stormy.

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

3. Kinetic

► Architectural.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Clear to the understanding.

4. Lugubrious

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

5. Deciduous

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

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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.