Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

EVANGELIST

DEFINITION:
An enthusiastic advocate.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Trump portrayed Means — a 37-year-old Stanford medical school graduate and author who describes herself on LinkedIn as a “former surgeon turned metabolic health evangelist” — in his announcement as fully in sync with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again.”
The Los Angeles Times, 05/12/2025

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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. Malignant

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

A rebirth or revival.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


2. Nocturnal

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

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


3. Maneuver

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

The arrangement of events in time


4. Hieroglyphic

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.


5. Protagonist

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


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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.