Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

IMPROBABLE

DEFINITION:
Unlikely to take place under the circumstances or in the usual course of events.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
That’s where Democratic candidates are trying to accomplish the improbable by flipping a pair of Trump-friendly congressional seats and carving into Republicans’ narrow 218 to 213 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Key West Citizen-Herald, 03/31/2025

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5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Homogeneous

Of the same or similar nature or kind

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


2. Omnipotent

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.


3. Polymer

Logical incongruity

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


4. Supercilious

Very talkative; garrulous.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


5. Mitosis

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

To show servile deference.


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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.