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This Week's Word In The News 

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DEFINITION:
An answer to a question or a reaction to something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“And the response right away was ‘Sure!’”
The Reading Eagle, 09/07/2026

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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. Nonsectarian

A diligent, dependable worker.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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


2. Homogeneous

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


3. Diffident

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

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


4. Vortex

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

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

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

To make an accusation against.


5. Paradigm

To make an accusation against.

The lowest point

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

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.


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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.