Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BROMANCE

DEFINITION:
A close but non-sexual relationship between two men.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The importance of personal relationships, such as the transactional bromance between President Trump and Musk, who spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to put his ally back in the Oval Office.
►The Los Angeles Times, 06/09/2025

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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. Thermodynamics

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

2. Euro

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

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

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

3. Gauche

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

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

► A diligent, dependable worker.

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

4. Photosynthesis

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

5. Polymer

► 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 certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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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.