Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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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. Unanimous

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


2. Phloem

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Self-examination.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


3. Light-Year

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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


4. Impertinent

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


5. Guerrilla

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

A schedule of prices or fees.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

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


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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.