Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RESPIRATORY

DEFINITION:
Relating to breathing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

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5 Middle 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. Inference

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


2. Boycott

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

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

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


3. Strategy

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.


4. Tumult

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

To condescend to give or grant

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


5. Hieroglyphic

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.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


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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.