Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

WRANGLING

DEFINITION:
Moving a person or thing somewhere, usually with difficulty or using force.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight.
The Boston Herald, 07/13/2026

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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. Diffident

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

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

To bring under control; conquer.

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


2. Circumlocution

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Logical incongruity

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.


3. Auspicious

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

The lowest point

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


4. Epiphany

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


5. Pecuniary

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

Of or relating to money

A system of names used in an art or science:

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


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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.