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This Week's Word In The News 

BOON

DEFINITION:
A thing that is helpful or beneficial.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A Miami World’s Fair would potentially result in a big tourism boon for the state and region, including the Florida Keys.
The Key West Citizen, 01/26/2026

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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. Nihilism

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

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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


2. Metamorphosis

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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


3. Vortex

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

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

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


4. Respiration

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

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Architectural.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


5. Nadir

Tumultuous; stormy.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

The lowest point

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


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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.