Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

PARLAY

DEFINITION:
A single bet that links together two or more individual wagers

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Then comes the parlay attempt.
The Key West Citizen, 01/05/2026

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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. Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Parabola

Precipitous

Sanguine

Hegemony


2. Put together; created.

Vacuous

Ziggurat

Wrought

Paradigm


3. Having one’s true identity concealed.

Tempestuous

Tautology

Incognito

Antebellum


4. An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Gerrymander

Auspicious

Infrastructure

Inculcate


5. Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Suffragist

Laissez faire

Diffident

Obsequious


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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.