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 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. Alliteration

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

2. Bandolier

► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

► Self-examination.

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

3. Hologram

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

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

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

► A proportional part or share.

4. Recede

► A proportional part or share.

► Being without or almost without hope

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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

5. Hieroglyphic

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

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

► To proclaim publicly

► 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.

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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.