Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ANTAGONIZING

DEFINITION:
Causing someone to become hostile or angry,

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"We’ve received reports of police antagonizing protesters, too, so we’re looking into that."
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/16/2025

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5 Elementary 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. disdain

A feeling of contempt or scorn.

Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.

What something does or is used for.

An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.


2. furtive

An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.


3. sabotage

The result or outcome of a cause.

The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

Anything that assures a certain outcome.


4. meander

Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)

To make happy, cheer up.

To follow a winding course

Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread


5. debris

Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.


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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.