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. Vertebrate

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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

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


2. Parasite

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


3. Mosaic

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


4. Heritage

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding


5. Boycott

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

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


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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.