Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

TRANSITION

DEFINITION:
A change from one thing to the next, either in action or state of being, as in a job transition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
VA benefits regional offices would be closed, and the VA would not be able to provide career counseling or transition assistance program activities.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 09/29/2025

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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. Jaunty

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


2. Nebula

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

To proclaim publicly

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


3. Immune

An embankment built to prevent flooding

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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


4. Pulverize

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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


5. Polygon

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

A schedule of prices or fees.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


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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.