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This Week's Word In The News 

TRANSITION

DEFINITION:
A change from one thing to the next, either in action or state of being, as in a job transition.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
VA benefits regional offices would be closed, and the VA would not be able to provide career counseling or transition assistance program activities.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 09/29/2025

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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. Nanotechnology

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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

Architectural.

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


2. Expurgate

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

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


3. Respiration

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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


4. Taxonomy

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.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Division into ordered groups or categories.


5. Plasma

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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.


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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.