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This Week's Word In The News 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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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. Auspicious

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

2. Hubris

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

3. Inculcate

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

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

► Not interesting; dull:

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

4. Suffragist

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

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

5. Abstemious

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

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

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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.