Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RECIPROCAL

DEFINITION:
Given, felt, or done in return. Reward the positive or punish the negative.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the reciprocal tariffs, Trump is effectively blowing up the rules governing world trade.
►The Albuquerque Journal, 07/14/2025

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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. Hologram

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

2. Outrageous

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

3. Camouflage

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

4. Levee

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

5. Light-Year

► The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

► Being without or almost without hope

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

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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.