Words in the News

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

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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. Fallacy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

To proclaim publicly

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


2. Exult

To proclaim publicly

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


3. Hologram

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

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


4. Heritage

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

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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


5. Inference

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


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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.