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. Omnivore

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

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


2. Protagonist

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


3. Jaunty

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


4. Ozone

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


5. Rainforest

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

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.