Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

PIGMENT

DEFINITION:
A substance that imparts black, white, or a color to other materials.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Pea-soup green pigment floated where the water met the shore on Eagle Nest Lake on Tuesday, while bright, turquoise pigment stained the south boat ramp.
►The Albuquerque Journal, 10/27/2025

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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. Paradigm

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

► The lowest point

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

2. Deleterious

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

3. Contradiction

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

► Logical incongruity

► To show servile deference.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

4. Inculcate

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

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

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

5. Temblor

► 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.

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

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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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.