Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ROOSTER TAIL

DEFINITION:
A high-arching spray (as of water, dust, or snow) thrown up behind a fast-moving motorboat, motor vehicle, or skier.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A second red flag was waved during the fifth race of the day when Rollin Transport got into a rooster tail on the turn of the first lap, resulting in the boat going onto its side before flipping.
The Key West Citizen, 11/10/2025

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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. Sect

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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


2. Hypocrisy

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

To cringe in fear

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


3. Wretched

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


4. Accentuate

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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


5. Divulge

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A rebirth or revival.

To proclaim publicly

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


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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.