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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

LANGUISH

DEFINITION:
Existing in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time:

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
President Biden’s aid request has languished for as long as Johnson has been speaker.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/18/2024

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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. Vertebrate

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


2. Renegade

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


3. Technique

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


4. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


5. Suffrage

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

To proclaim publicly


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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.