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This Week's Word In The News 

BOON

DEFINITION:
A thing that is helpful or beneficial.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys.
The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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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. Churlish

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Logical incongruity

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


2. Photosynthesis

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.

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

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

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


3. Hubris

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

A part, portion, or share.


4. Tempestuous

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

A part, portion, or share.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Tumultuous; stormy.


5. Xenophobe

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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.

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

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


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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.