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. Exult

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

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

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

2. Mosaic

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

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

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

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

3. Bamboozle

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

4. Flourish

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

5. Chronology

► 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 arrangement of events in time

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

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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.