Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
►The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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1. Quarantine

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

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

2. Tsunami

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

3. Vaccine

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

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

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

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

4. Solstice

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

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

► 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.

5. Stereotype

► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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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.