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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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. Yacht

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


2. Vaccine

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

To condescend to give or grant


3. Quota

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

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

A proportional part or share.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


4. Quandary

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


5. Immune

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


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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.