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This Week's Word In The News 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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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. Kinetic

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


2. Reciprocal

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

To bring under control; conquer.

Very talkative; garrulous.


3. Hubris

To bring under control; conquer.

Very talkative; garrulous.

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


4. Nanotechnology

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

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


5. Mitosis

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


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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.