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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 

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

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School 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. To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Expurgate

Thermodynamics

Usurp

Subjugate


2. To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Belie

Temblor

Filibuster

Notarize


3. A part, portion, or share.

Bellicose

Tectonic

Moiety

Vortex


4. The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Ziggurat

Gauche

Supercilious

Hypotenuse


5. The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Winnow

Hemoglobin

Gerrymander

Antebellum


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