Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ENTICE

DEFINITION:
To attract (someone), usually to do something, by arousing hope, interest, or desire.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
It’s also unclear how a downsizing of federal space might unfold, and whether the government could entice buyers if it attempts to sell any Chicago buildings.
The Chicago Tribune, 02/17/2025

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5 Middle 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. Introspection

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

Self-examination.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


2. Sacrifice

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.


3. Boisterous

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


4. Hypocrisy

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


5. Labyrinth

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


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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.