Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

TESTY

DEFINITION:
Marked by impatience or ill humor.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Unions representing sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and lifeguards made a public pitch Thursday for more support in increasingly testy contract negotiations, releasing a half-hour documentary that highlighted their members’ harrowing tales from the first days of the fires.
►The Los Angeles Times, 04/28/2025

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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. Chronology

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► The arrangement of events in time

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

2. Accentuate

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

3. Tundra

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► To proclaim publicly

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

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

4. Suffrage

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

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

5. Voracious

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

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

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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.