Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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5 Elementary 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. frequency

► So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

► Dark, faint or indistinct.

► The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.

► Open resistance; bold disobedience.

2. conclude

► Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.

► Explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions)

► More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

► To end, to come to an end.

3. circumference

► Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.

► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

► To clarify or make something understandable

► The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.

4. guarantee

► Hidden, secret

► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

► Anything that assures a certain outcome.

► A small hill or mound.

5. similar

► Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.

► One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

► A glowing piece of coal or wood.

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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.