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. banish

► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

► To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

2. degree

► The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object

► To clarify or make something understandable

► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

► A state of confused and noisy disturbance

3. defiance

► The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

► To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.

► Open resistance; bold disobedience.

► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

4. vulnerable

► 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.

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

► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

5. source

► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

► A glowing piece of coal or wood.

► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

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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.