Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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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. Mutation

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.


2. Renaissance

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A rebirth or revival.

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


3. Recede

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

To proclaim publicly

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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


4. Labyrinth

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

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

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

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


5. Mosaic

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


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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.