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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. Filibuster

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

Tumultuous; stormy.

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.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


2. Temblor

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

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


3. Oxidize

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.


4. Deciduous

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

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

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

Very talkative; garrulous.


5. Nadir

Very talkative; garrulous.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

The lowest point

Of or relating to money


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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.