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. Deciduous

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

2. Fatuous

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► To show servile deference.

3. Detritus

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

4. Incontrovertible

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

5. Chicanery

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► The lowest point

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

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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.