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This Week's Word In The News 

ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:
A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/01/2025

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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. Soliloquy

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

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


2. Abjure

Clear to the understanding.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


3. Thermodynamics

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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


4. Totalitarian

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

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

Tumultuous; stormy.

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


5. Gauche

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Logical incongruity

Lacking social polish; tactless.


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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.