Words in the News

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 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. Antibody

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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


2. Aspire

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


3. Accentuate

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

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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


4. Camouflage

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


5. Recede

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 or demonstrating enthusiasm

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark


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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.