Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ENTICING

DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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5 Middle School Words

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1. Cower

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

► To cringe in fear

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.


2. Stereotype

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

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

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

► Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


3. Eclectic

► 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.

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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


4. Fallacy

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


5. Nebula

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

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


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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.