Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RENDERING

DEFINITION:
Giving something to someone.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The replay booth has been working overtime in the Stanley Cup Final, and the officials charged with rendering the final verdicts probably won’t be getting any comped dinners in Las Vegas anytime soon.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 06/08/2026

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5 Middle 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. Levee

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


2. Light-Year

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion


3. Antibody

The arrangement of events in time

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


4. Maneuver

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.


5. Malignant

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

To cringe in fear

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.


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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.