Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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1. Accentuate

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► Being without or almost without hope

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

► To stress or emphasize; intensify


2. Impertinent

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

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

► A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


3. Inference

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

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony


4. Repose

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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

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


5. Jovial

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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


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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.