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This Week's Word In The News 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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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. Reparation

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


2. Equinox

Put together; created.

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


3. Expurgate

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


4. Auspicious

Tumultuous; stormy.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Of or relating to money


5. Hegemony

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


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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.