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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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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. Parabola

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


2. Nonsectarian

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


3. Metamorphosis

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

To show servile deference.

Playfully jocular; humorous

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.


4. Kinetic

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

To make an accusation against.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


5. Infrastructure

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

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

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


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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.