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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 

DEPLETE

DEFINITION:
To use up or consume a limited resource.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Councilor Brian Worrell is sounding off after a Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled that if the footage became public before trial, it would deplete the jury pool in the manslaughter case against Boston police officer Nick O’Malley.
►The Boston Herald, 07/27/2026

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. Vortex

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

2. Deciduous

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

3. Chicanery

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► Put together; created.

4. Lexicon

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

5. Fiduciary

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

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

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