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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

DETRIMENTAL

DEFINITION:
Causing harm or damage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the A’s relocation process in motion, if the court found SB1 to be unconstitutional, it would be detrimental to the team and all parties involved in the stadium process, according to the A’s.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 04/22/2024

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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. Usurp

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

► Not interesting; dull:

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

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

2. Deleterious

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

► To show servile deference.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

3. Bellicose

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

4. Irony

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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

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

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

5. Oxidize

► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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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.