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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ROOSTER TAIL

DEFINITION:
A high-arching spray (as of water, dust, or snow) thrown up behind a fast-moving motorboat, motor vehicle, or skier.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A second red flag was waved during the fifth race of the day when Rollin Transport got into a rooster tail on the turn of the first lap, resulting in the boat going onto its side before flipping.
The Key West Citizen, 11/10/2025

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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. Totalitarian

Architectural.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.


2. Detritus

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.


3. Interpolate

A system of names used in an art or science:

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

To bring under control; conquer.

Logical incongruity


4. Auspicious

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


5. Nihilism

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


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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.