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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ENTICING

DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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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. Irony

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► Tumultuous; stormy.


2. Hypotenuse

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


3. Plasma

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

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

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


4. Diffident

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

► Of or relating to money

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.


5. Detritus

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


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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.