Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RESPIRATORY

DEFINITION:
Relating to breathing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

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5 Middle 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. Eclectic

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


2. Omnivore

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


3. Antibody

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A schedule of prices or fees.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


4. Enthusiastic

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


5. Virtuoso

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


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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.