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This Week's Word In The News 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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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. Subjugate

To bring under control; conquer.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


2. Wrought

Put together; created.

Everyday; commonplace.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


3. Gamete

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

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.


4. Fiduciary

Of or relating to money

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

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

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


5. Incontrovertible

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.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Logical incongruity

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


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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.