Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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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. Decorum

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


2. Silhouette

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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


3. Quota

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

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

A proportional part or share.

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


4. Plateau

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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


5. Labyrinth

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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

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


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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.