Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
►The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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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. Tranquility

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

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

2. Commemorate

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

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

3. Tariff

► A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

► A schedule of prices or fees.

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

4. Hieroglyphic

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► Being without or almost without hope

► 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.

5. Rainforest

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

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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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.