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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 Middle 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. Fallacy

► A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

2. Suffrage

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

3. Pulverize

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

► A schedule of prices or fees.

4. Recede

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

5. Voracious

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

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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.