Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RESPIRATORY

DEFINITION:
Relating to breathing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

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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. Abstemious

Not interesting; dull:

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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


2. Evanescent

Logical incongruity

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.


3. Orthography

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.


4. Expurgate

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Lacking social polish; tactless.


5. Xenophobe

To bring under control; conquer.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

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


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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.