Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ROIL

DEFINITION:
To disturb or disquiet; stir up; irritate; vex.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Writers Guild of America and the major Hollywood studios are closing in on a deal that would end a 145-day strike that has roiled the film and TV business and caused thousands of job losses.
The Los Angeles Times, 09/25/2023

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5 High 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. Parabola

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


2. Vehement

Clear to the understanding.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.


3. Hemoglobin

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.


4. Nonsectarian

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


5. Unctuous

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.


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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.