Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
►The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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5 High 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. Inculcate

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

2. Parameter

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

3. Quasar

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

4. Thermodynamics

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► To make an accusation against.

5. Chicanery

► Put together; created.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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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.