Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
►The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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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. Facetious

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

2. Ziggurat

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► 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.

► 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.

► Architectural.

3. Sanguine

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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

► To make an accusation against.

4. Mitosis

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

5. Xenophobe

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

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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.