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This Week's Word In The News 

ROOSTER TAIL

DEFINITION:
A high-arching spray (as of water, dust, or snow) thrown up behind a fast-moving motorboat, motor vehicle, or skier.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
A second red flag was waved during the fifth race of the day when Rollin Transport got into a rooster tail on the turn of the first lap, resulting in the boat going onto its side before flipping.
The Key West Citizen, 11/10/2025

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1. Hieroglyphic

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.


2. Symbiosis

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


3. Camouflage

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


4. Formidable

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

To proclaim publicly

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


5. Hypocrisy

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

To cringe in fear

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

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.


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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.