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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ADVERSE

DEFINITION:
Having a negative or harmful effect on something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
There was no evidence of “any adverse or harmful chemical or other exposures,” he wrote.
The Boston Herald, 06/15/2026

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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. Bellicose

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Clear to the understanding.


2. Filibuster

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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


3. Hemoglobin

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


4. Plasma

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


5. Fiduciary

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


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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.