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This Week's Word In The News 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
►The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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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. Incontrovertible

► Playfully jocular; humorous

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

► 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.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

2. Nadir

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

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

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

► The lowest point

3. Unctuous

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

► To proceed completely around:

► Of or relating to money

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

4. Vortex

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

► Clear to the understanding.

► 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.

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

5. Mitosis

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

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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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.