Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

OPTIMAL

DEFINITION:
Most favorable or desirable; optimum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
In the last several weeks, the water temperature has remained optimal and coral practitioners have started planning to outplant coral on the Keys reef tract.
The Key West Citizen-Herald, 11/04/2024

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5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Soliloquy

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

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.


2. Winnow

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


3. Gauche

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


4. Obsequious

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


5. Kowtow

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

To bring under control; conquer.

To show servile deference.

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


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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.