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. Jejune

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► Not interesting; dull:

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

2. Wrought

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

► Put together; created.

3. Feckless

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

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

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

4. Obsequious

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► 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.

► Of or relating to money

5. Churlish

► Of or relating to money

► A part, portion, or share.

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

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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.