Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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5 Middle 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. Levee

To cringe in fear

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


2. Toxin

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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


3. Embargo

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


4. Accentuate

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A schedule of prices or fees.


5. Stereotype

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


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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.