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This Week's Word In The News 

INBOUND

DEFINITION:
Travelling towards a particular point or place rather than leaving it.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The runway was closed and inbound and outbound traffic was delayed for a few hours.
The Key West Citizen, 06/22/2026

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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. Hieroglyphic

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

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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.


2. Kilometer

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

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.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


3. Silhouette

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


4. Laconic

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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


5. Exult

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

To condescend to give or grant


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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.