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This Week's Word In The News 

ADVERSE

DEFINITION:
Having a negative or harmful effect on something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
There was no evidence of “any adverse or harmful chemical or other exposures,” he wrote.
The Boston Herald, 06/15/2026

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5 High 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. Interpolate

To proceed completely around:

Of or relating to money

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

A system of names used in an art or science:


2. Photosynthesis

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


3. Lugubrious

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


4. Quasar

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.


5. Detritus

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Architectural.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


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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.