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This Week's Word In The News 

ROOSTER TAIL

DEFINITION:
A high-arching spray (as of water, dust, or snow) thrown up behind a fast-moving motorboat, motor vehicle, or skier.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A second red flag was waved during the fifth race of the day when Rollin Transport got into a rooster tail on the turn of the first lap, resulting in the boat going onto its side before flipping.
The Key West Citizen, 11/10/2025

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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. Levee

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Hieroglyphic

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

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


3. Tumult

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


4. Malignant

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


5. Repose

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

To proclaim publicly


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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.