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This Week's Word In The News 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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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. Unctuous

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

2. Obsequious

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► Not interesting; dull:

3. Supercilious

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

4. Temblor

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

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

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

5. Inculcate

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

► To show servile deference.

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

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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.