Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

HEIST

DEFINITION:
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Five suspects accused in connection with the heist were taken into custody late Wednesday, bringing the total arrest count to seven.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/03/2025

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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. Recapitulate

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

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


2. Parameter

Architectural.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


3. Homogeneous

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

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


4. Diffident

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

To proceed completely around:

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.


5. Abjure

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


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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.