Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

IMPROBABLE

DEFINITION:
Unlikely to take place under the circumstances or in the usual course of events.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That’s where Democratic candidates are trying to accomplish the improbable by flipping a pair of Trump-friendly congressional seats and carving into Republicans’ narrow 218 to 213 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Key West Citizen-Herald, 03/31/2025

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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. The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Orthography

Deciduous

Bowdlerize

Infrastructure


2. 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.

Contradiction

Gamete

Belie

Vehement


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

Vehement

Euro

Moiety

Xenophobe


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

Totalitarian

Inculcate

Filibuster

Metamorphosis


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

Detritus

Antebellum

Quasar

Equinox


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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.