Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

HEIST

DEFINITION:
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Five suspects accused in connection with the heist were taken into custody late Wednesday, bringing the total arrest count to seven.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/03/2025

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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. Malignant

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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


2. Technique

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


3. Introspection

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Self-examination.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


4. Quota

A proportional part or share.

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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.


5. Participle

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

A schedule of prices or fees.

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


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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.