Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

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DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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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. Churlish

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

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

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

2. Fiduciary

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

3. Hubris

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► A part, portion, or share.

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

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

4. Filibuster

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

► Of or relating to money

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

5. Irony

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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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.