Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

EXTRADITE

DEFINITION:
Hand over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Deputy U.S. Marshals from Colorado flew to Canada this week to extradite a fugitive suspect back to the United States, officials announced Friday.
The Denver Post, 03/25/2024

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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. Plasma

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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

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

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


2. Detritus

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

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


3. Facetious

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Playfully jocular; humorous


4. Loquacious

Very talkative; garrulous.

To show servile deference.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Architectural.


5. Photosynthesis

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Put together; created.


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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.