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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.
This Week's Word In The News 

PETITIONER

DEFINITION:
A person who pleads with a governmental institution for a legal remedy or a redress of grievances, through the use of a petition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
While presenting the citizens’ petition for debate at the April 11 Spring Town Meeting, petitioners argued that ICE operations in Plymouth have “created fear” and “disrupted lives” among the immigrant community, leading to what they call a distrust of local police.
The Boston Herald, 04/20/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. disdain

Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.

To build or form something by assembling parts.

What something does or is used for.

A feeling of contempt or scorn.


2. meticulous

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

A process of compensation for losses.

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

Timid, fearful, overly cautious


3. quell

Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied

To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.


4. swagger

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

A bold, or arrogant strut.

Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.

A measurement one can compare to.


5. detail

A measurement one can compare to.

An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.

The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

Something small enough to escape casual notice.


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