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 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. Despondent

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► Being without or almost without hope

2. Mutation

► A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

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

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

3. Stereotype

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

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

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

4. Lichen

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

5. Hypocrisy

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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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.