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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

HEIST

DEFINITION:
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Five suspects accused in connection with the heist were taken into custody late Wednesday, bringing the total arrest count to seven.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/03/2025

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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. Technique

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

2. Repose

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► A proportional part or share.

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

3. Inference

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

4. Yacht

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

5. Rainforest

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

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

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

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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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.

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