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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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. Strategy

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

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

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Gargoyle

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


3. Symbiosis

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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


4. Boycott

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

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

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


5. Tempo

A schedule of prices or fees.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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


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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.