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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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5 High 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. Nadir

The lowest point

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


2. Plasma

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

To proceed completely around:

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

A part, portion, or share.


3. Auspicious

Clear to the understanding.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


4. Bowdlerize

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

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


5. Laissez faire

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Not interesting; dull:


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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.