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This Week's Word In The News 

PENDULUM

DEFINITION:
A weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The grim forecast was driven by lower than projected state revenues, continuing a pendulum swing from the fiscal boom of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Los Angeles Times, 05/13/2024

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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. A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Enervate

Metamorphosis

Abrogate

Plasma


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

Contradiction

Totalitarian

Nanotechnology

Antebellum


3. Of the same or similar nature or kind

Epiphany

Homogeneous

Xenophobe

Parameter


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

Irony

Kowtow

Photosynthesis

Reparation


5. To renounce under oath; forswear.

Mitosis

Abjure

Abstemious

Feckless


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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.