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RESPIRATORY

DEFINITION:
Relating to breathing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
They weren’t warned to wear respiratory and other personal protection because the burning composite materials from the F-35 stealth fighter were releasing potentially harmful airborne particles and fibers, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque.
►The Albuquerque Journal, 03/30/2026

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5 High School Words

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1. Respiration

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

2. Xenophobe

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

3. Vehement

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

4. Precipitous

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

5. Thermodynamics

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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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.