Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RESPIRATORY

DEFINITION:
Relating to breathing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

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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. Divulge

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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

To proclaim publicly

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


2. Repose

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

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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


3. Camouflage

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

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


4. Kilometer

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


5. Enthusiastic

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.


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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.