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This Week's Word In The News 

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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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. Vehement

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

► To bring under control; conquer.

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

2. Totalitarian

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

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

3. Belie

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► Everyday; commonplace.

4. Detritus

► Everyday; commonplace.

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

5. Photosynthesis

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

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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.