Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

DEPLETE

DEFINITION:
To use up or consume a limited resource.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Councilor Brian Worrell is sounding off after a Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled that if the footage became public before trial, it would deplete the jury pool in the manslaughter case against Boston police officer Nick O’Malley.
The Boston Herald, 07/27/2026

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5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Temblor

Playfully jocular; humorous

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

To proceed completely around:

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


2. Laissez faire

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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


3. Filibuster

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

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


4. Mitosis

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


5. Antebellum

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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


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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.