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This Week's Word In The News 

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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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. Hegemony

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

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.

To show servile deference.


2. Paradigm

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

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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


3. Pecuniary

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Of or relating to money

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


4. Xenophobe

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

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

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


5. Oxidize

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

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

To bring under control; conquer.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


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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.