Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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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. Jovial

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


2. Lichen

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


3. Spectrum

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


4. Solstice

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


5. Boycott

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion


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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.