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This Week's Word In The News 

SEGREGATED

DEFINITION:
Kept separate or treated differently according to race, sex, religion, etc.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The other flag, dubbed “History,” is a nod to the Black experience in St. Petersburg, which was once heavily segregated.
The Key West Citizen, 10/13/2025

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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. Sanguine

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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.

To make an accusation against.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


2. Recapitulate

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


3. Temblor

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


4. Jejune

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

Playfully jocular; humorous

Not interesting; dull:

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


5. Precipitous

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

Having one’s true identity concealed.


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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.