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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

INBOUND

DEFINITION:
Travelling towards a particular point or place rather than leaving it.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The runway was closed and inbound and outbound traffic was delayed for a few hours.
The Key West Citizen, 06/22/2026

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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. Evanescent

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.


2. Nomenclature

A system of names used in an art or science:

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

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.

Put together; created.


3. Irony

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


4. Hegemony

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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

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


5. Deciduous

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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

Lacking social polish; tactless.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


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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.