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This Week's Word In The News 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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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. Unanimous

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.


2. Deduction

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


3. Random

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


4. Ozone

An embankment built to prevent flooding

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.


5. Hologram

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal


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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.