Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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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. Tundra

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

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


2. Stereotype

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


3. Mosaic

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Self-examination.

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

Being without or almost without hope


4. Vacillate

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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


5. Tranquility

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


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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.