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This Week's Word In The News 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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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. Infrastructure

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

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


2. Precipitous

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


3. Expurgate

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

A diligent, dependable worker.

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


4. Auspicious

A diligent, dependable worker.

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

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


5. Parameter

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


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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.