Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

DISABILITY

DEFINITION:
A physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain tasks or participate in daily activities.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The agreement last week between Disability-rights groups and Secretary of State Shirley Weber follows an Oct. 2 ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of San Francisco that the current system violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws.
►San Francisco Chronicle, 11/02/2026

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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. Parameter

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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

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

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

2. Wrought

► Put together; created.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

3. Incognito

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

4. Circumnavigate

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► To proceed completely around:

► 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.

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

5. Thermodynamics

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

► Logical incongruity

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

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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.