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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

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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. Hypotenuse

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


2. Tempestuous

Tumultuous; stormy.

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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


3. Unctuous

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

A system of names used in an art or science:

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


4. Totalitarian

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


5. Oligarchy

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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


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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.