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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. Tectonic

Architectural.

Tumultuous; stormy.

Not interesting; dull:

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


2. Respiration

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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


3. Nanotechnology

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

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


4. Chromosome

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

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


5. Bowdlerize

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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 modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

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


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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.