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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

COERCE

DEFINITION:
To persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Lina Kahn, a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, said that Google was using its “search monopoly to coerce schools” into adopting its AI.
►The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 11/09/2026

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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. Notarize

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

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

► A part, portion, or share.

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


2. Nihilism

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

► Not interesting; dull:

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


3. Recapitulate

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


4. Polymer

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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

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

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


5. Enervate

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

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► Put together; created.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


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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.