Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RECOGNITION

DEFINITION:
Identifying someone or something previously encountered, or giving official approval, credit, or attention to an achievement.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“Mr. Simon, with the thanks of a grateful nation, community and state in recognition of your dedicated service and sacrifice and bravery to our country, it is an honor to award you your diploma. Congratulations,” Rasmusson said.
►The Forum, 11/16/2026

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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. Nihilism

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

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

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

2. Vehement

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► 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.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

3. Recapitulate

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

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

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

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

4. Circumnavigate

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

► To proceed completely around:

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

5. Diffident

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

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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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.