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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. Unanimous

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


2. Delegate

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

To stress or emphasize; intensify


3. Guerrilla

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


4. Guru

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


5. Bandolier

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


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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.