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This Week's Word In The News 

ACCESS

DEFINITION:
The freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Restrict access to out-of-state entities, like federal agencies, private entities, or other states, unless required by a court order or judicial warrant.
The Duluth News Tribune, 08/24/2026

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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. Xenophobe

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

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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


2. Incognito

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

To renounce under oath; forswear.


3. Deleterious

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

A system of names used in an art or science:

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


4. Temblor

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


5. Thermodynamics

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


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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.