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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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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. Irony

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

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


2. Temblor

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

Not interesting; dull:

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


3. Reparation

Of the same or similar nature or kind

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.

Logical incongruity


4. Paradigm

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

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Having one’s true identity concealed.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.


5. Laissez faire

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


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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.