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This Week's Word In The News 

DISABILITY

DEFINITION:
A physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain tasks or participate in daily activities.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The agreement last week between Disability-rights groups and Secretary of State Shirley Weber follows an Oct. 2 ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of San Francisco that the current system violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws.
►San Francisco Chronicle, 11/02/2026

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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. Kowtow

► To show servile deference.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

► Put together; created.

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

2. Soliloquy

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

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► 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.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

3. Kinetic

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

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► Of or relating to money

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

4. Hubris

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► 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.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Not interesting; dull:

5. Parabola

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

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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.