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This Week's Word In The News 

MITIGATION

DEFINITION:
The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
But after years of record investment by the state in such wildfire risk mitigation, two key money sources are drying up, potentially reducing the state’s annual budget for vegetation removal by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Los Angeles Times, 06/01/2026

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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. Voracious

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

Being without or almost without hope


2. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

The arrangement of events in time


3. Jaunty

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


4. Quandary

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


5. Recede

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


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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.