Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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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. Ellipse

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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

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


2. Enthusiastic

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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


3. Vaccine

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


4. Random

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

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

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


5. Malignant

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


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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.