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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. Obsequious

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.


2. Acumen

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Tumultuous; stormy.

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


3. Abstemious

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

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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


4. Loquacious

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Very talkative; garrulous.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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


5. Hypotenuse

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

To proceed completely around:

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


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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.