Words in the News

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. Vortex

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

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

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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

2. Kowtow

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► To show servile deference.

3. Interpolate

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

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

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

4. Chromosome

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

► Clear to the understanding.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

5. Tectonic

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

► Architectural.

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

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

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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.