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. Hemoglobin

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.


2. Antebellum

A system of names used in an art or science:

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.

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


3. Reciprocal

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Having one’s true identity concealed.


4. Temblor

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

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Architectural.


5. Unctuous

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

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


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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.