Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

SEGREGATED

DEFINITION:
Kept separate or treated differently according to race, sex, religion, etc.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The other flag, dubbed “History,” is a nod to the Black experience in St. Petersburg, which was once heavily segregated.
The Key West Citizen, 10/13/2025

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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. Tumult

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


2. Exult

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A proportional part or share.

Being without or almost without hope


3. Renegade

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


4. Stereotype

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

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

To proclaim publicly


5. Aspire

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


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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.