Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
►The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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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. Recapitulate

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

2. Fiduciary

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

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

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

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

3. Hubris

► 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.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

4. Respiration

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

5. Mitosis

► The lowest point

► A diligent, dependable worker.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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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.