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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ENTICING

DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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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. Vortex

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

2. Circumnavigate

► 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.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► To proceed completely around:

3. Reparation

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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

4. Hypotenuse

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

5. Antebellum

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

► To make an accusation against.

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

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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.