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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1. cunning

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

► A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.

► Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour.

2. recuperate

► To build or form something by assembling parts.

► The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

► Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

► To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.

3. infer

► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

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

► A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

4. barricade

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

► Displeasing to the eye

► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.

► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

5. monotonous

► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

► To attempt to stop the progression of.

► Having an unvarying tone or pitch

► To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

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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.