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This Week's Word In The News 

CONDOLENCE

DEFINITION:
An expression of sympathy, especially on the occasion of a death.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden extended their “deepest condolences” to Comperatore’s family.
The Morning Cal, 07/15/2024

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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. Nihilism

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

To make an accusation against.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.


2. Enfranchise

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

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

Architectural.

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


3. Soliloquy

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Everyday; commonplace.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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


4. Thermodynamics

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

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

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


5. Euro

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Put together; created.

A system of names used in an art or science:


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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.