Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

DETRIMENTAL

DEFINITION:
Causing harm or damage.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the A’s relocation process in motion, if the court found SB1 to be unconstitutional, it would be detrimental to the team and all parties involved in the stadium process, according to the A’s.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 04/22/2024

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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. Circumnavigate

To proceed completely around:

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

A part, portion, or share.

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


2. Lugubrious

A part, portion, or share.

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

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.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


3. Nomenclature

A system of names used in an art or science:

Clear to the understanding.

Put together; created.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.


4. Temblor

Put together; created.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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


5. Paradigm

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


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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.