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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. Irony

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

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

To bring under control; conquer.


2. Precipitous

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Lacking social polish; tactless.


3. Feckless

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Eating and drinking in moderation.


4. Facetious

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

Playfully jocular; humorous

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


5. Chromosome

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

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

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

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.


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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.