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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BOON

DEFINITION:
A thing that is helpful or beneficial.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys.
The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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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. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Omnipotent

Expurgate

Tautology

Belie


2. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Infrastructure

Photosynthesis

Parabola

Respiration


3. The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Respiration

Auspicious

Interpolate

Euro


4. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Enervate

Winnow

Vacuous

Circumlocution


5. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Pecuniary

Abjure

Obsequious

Subjugate


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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.