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This Week's Word In The News 

MISMANAGE

DEFINITION:
To organize or control something badly; to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Grants had been mismanaged, he stated, and he questioned payments made to CEO Tim Bedwell’s wife, Michele, and her business partner, Adam Kent.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/24/2025

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5 Middle 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. Renegade

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


2. Recede

To stress or emphasize; intensify

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


3. Guerrilla

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


4. Voracious

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A proportional part or share.


5. Technique

A proportional part or share.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


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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.