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. Homogeneous

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

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

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

2. Impeach

► To make an accusation against.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

3. Interpolate

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

4. Totalitarian

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

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

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

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

5. Xenophobe

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

► The lowest point

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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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.