Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

PRIOR

DEFINITION:
Existing or coming before in time, order, or importance.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Investigators learned Gray was interested in prior school shootings, including the 2018 Parkland, Fla., shooting and the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The Boston Herald, 09/09/2024

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5 Middle 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. Levee

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


2. Ultraviolet

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


3. Random

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


4. Quandary

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


5. Technique

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


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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.