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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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. Dialogue

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

2. Technique

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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

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

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

3. Ozone

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

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

► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

4. Undulate

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

► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

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

► A proportional part or share.

5. Levee

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

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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.