Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

INBOUND

DEFINITION:
Travelling towards a particular point or place rather than leaving it.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The runway was closed and inbound and outbound traffic was delayed for a few hours.
The Key West Citizen, 06/22/2026

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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. Alliteration

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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

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


2. Vertebrate

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


3. Lichen

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


4. Pulverize

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


5. Chronology

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Self-examination.

The arrangement of events in time

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


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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.