Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ACCOST

DEFINITION:
To approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
As their identities became more public, the operators were even accosted in their off hours.
►The Anchorage Daily News, 09/21/2026

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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. current

► Existing or occurring at the moment.

► The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

► 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.

► The extent to which something matters; importance

2. misgivings

► Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread

► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

► A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

3. meander

► Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

► A state of confused and noisy disturbance

► To follow a winding course

► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

4. disdain

► Displeasing to the eye

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

► A feeling of contempt or scorn.

► Hidden, secret

5. ignite

► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

► To set fire to (something), to light (something)

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

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

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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.