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This Week's Word In The News 

OVERZEALOUS

DEFINITION:
Showing too much energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Patrolmen’s Association, the city’s largest police union, attributed the encounter to an “overzealous poll worker who was complaining to the officer that the councilor shouldn’t have even been inside.”
The Boston Herald, 11/17/2025

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1. Recede

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


2. Suffrage

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


3. Bamboozle

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


4. Outrageous

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


5. Analogy

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


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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.