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This Week's Word In The News 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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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. Xenophobe

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.


2. Chromosome

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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


3. Circumlocution

To make an accusation against.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


4. Respiration

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


5. Soliloquy

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


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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.