Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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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. Virtuoso

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


2. Immune

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The arrangement of events in time

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


3. Renaissance

A rebirth or revival.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


4. Vacillate

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


5. Tariff

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

A schedule of prices or fees.


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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.