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This Week's Word In The News 

ADVERSE

DEFINITION:
Having a negative or harmful effect on something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
There was no evidence of “any adverse or harmful chemical or other exposures,” he wrote.
The Boston Herald, 06/15/2026

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5 High 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. Feckless

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


2. Quasar

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

A diligent, dependable worker.

Playfully jocular; humorous

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


3. Bowdlerize

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

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.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


4. Hegemony

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

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

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

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


5. Suffragist

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

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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


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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.