Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ANTAGONIZING

DEFINITION:
Causing someone to become hostile or angry,

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"We’ve received reports of police antagonizing protesters, too, so we’re looking into that."
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/16/2025

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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. Xenophobe

► Architectural.

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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

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

2. Lexicon

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

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

3. Winnow

► Of or relating to money

► 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.

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

4. Yeoman

► A diligent, dependable worker.

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

5. Gerrymander

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

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

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

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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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.