Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

LANGUISH

DEFINITION:
Existing in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time:

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
President Biden’s aid request has languished for as long as Johnson has been speaker.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/18/2024

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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. Antibody

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


2. Bamboozle

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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


3. Repose

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

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


4. Participle

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


5. Guru

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

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


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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.