Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

HEIST

DEFINITION:
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Five suspects accused in connection with the heist were taken into custody late Wednesday, bringing the total arrest count to seven.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/03/2025

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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. Hypotenuse

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

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

2. Temblor

► Everyday; commonplace.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

3. Tautology

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

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

► To proceed completely around:

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

4. Lucid

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

► Architectural.

► Clear to the understanding.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

5. Auspicious

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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

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

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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.