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. Cower

► Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

► To cringe in fear

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

2. Despondent

► Being without or almost without hope

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

3. Omnivore

► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

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

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

4. Labyrinth

► An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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

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

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

5. Unanimous

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

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

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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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.