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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

THRESHOLD

DEFINITION:
A level, point, or value at which something is true.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Child poverty — an assessment of whether pretax income for households with children falls below the latest poverty threshold — declined more significantly in New Mexico in the last three years, dropping from an estimated rate of 24.2% between 2022 and 2024 to 20.9% from 2023 to 2025.
►The Albuquerque Journal, 09/28/2026

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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. Vortex

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

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

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Of or relating to money


2. Notarize

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

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


3. Lexicon

► To show servile deference.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


4. Temblor

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

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

► Architectural.

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.


5. Suffragist

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

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

► To make an accusation against.

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


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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.