Words in the News

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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5 Middle School Words

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1. Bizarre

► The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

2. Delegate

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

3. Renaissance

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

► A rebirth or revival.

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

4. Recede

► 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

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

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

► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

5. Mutation

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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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.