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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BLEACH

DEFINITION:
To become white or pale. Coral bleaching is the process when corals become white due to loss of symbiotic algae and photosynthetic pigments.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
If water temperatures remain above 84 degrees for a significant period, corals will begin to experience stress and start to bleach.
The Key West Citizen, 06/24/2024

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5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Having a bad disposition; surly.

Churlish

Reparation

Deleterious

Sanguine


2. Lacking social polish; tactless.

Gauche

Nanotechnology

Gamete

Quasar


3. To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Enfranchise

Bowdlerize

Contradiction

Obsequious


4. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Nomenclature

Filibuster

Chromosome

Hubris


5. To show servile deference.

Kowtow

Abstemious

Soliloquy

Plasma


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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.