Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

INBOUND

DEFINITION:
Travelling towards a particular point or place rather than leaving it.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The runway was closed and inbound and outbound traffic was delayed for a few hours.
►The Key West Citizen, 06/22/2026

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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. Churlish

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

2. Totalitarian

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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

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

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

3. Parameter

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

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Clear to the understanding.

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

4. Abrogate

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► To bring under control; conquer.

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

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

5. Detritus

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

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

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

► 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.

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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.