Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

PARLAY

DEFINITION:
A single bet that links together two or more individual wagers

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Then comes the parlay attempt.
►The Key West Citizen, 01/05/2026

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5 Middle School Words

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1. Silhouette

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

► Self-examination.

► 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

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

2. Despondent

► Being without or almost without hope

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

3. Quarantine

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

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

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

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

4. Typhoon

► The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

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

5. Tsunami

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

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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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.