Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

SUBPOENA

DEFINITION:
A legal document that commands a person or entity to testify as a witness at a specified time and place.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Workers at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump's Palm Beach club, have reportedly been subpoenaed in the investigation into his keeping of classified documents at the property.
, 03/20/2023

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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. Malignant

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

A proportional part or share.


2. Suffrage

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

A proportional part or share.

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


3. Mutation

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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


4. Quarantine

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


5. Divulge

To proclaim publicly

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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


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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.