Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
►The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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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. Chromosome

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

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

2. Parameter

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

► To show servile deference.

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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

3. Metamorphosis

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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

► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

4. Equinox

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

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► To proceed completely around:

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

5. Belie

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

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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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.