Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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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. Zoology

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


2. Sect

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.


3. Spectrum

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

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


4. Commemorate

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


5. Virtuoso

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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


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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.