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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. Precipitous

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


2. Impeach

To make an accusation against.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Put together; created.


3. Nanotechnology

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

To proceed completely around:

Very talkative; garrulous.


4. Antebellum

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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


5. Xenophobe

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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


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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.