Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

SEGREGATED

DEFINITION:
Kept separate or treated differently according to race, sex, religion, etc.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The other flag, dubbed “History,” is a nod to the Black experience in St. Petersburg, which was once heavily segregated.
►The Key West Citizen, 10/13/2025

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5 Middle 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. Despondent

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

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► Being without or almost without hope

2. Renaissance

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► A rebirth or revival.

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

3. Spectrum

► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► 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.

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

4. Lichen

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

► An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

5. Nuisance

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike 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.