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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

INGESTION

DEFINITION:
The process of taking food, drink, or another substance into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Novak shared that ingestion of food and water is a main route of PFAS exposure, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
The Key West Citizen, 05/05/2025

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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. To renounce under oath; forswear.

Abjure

Belie

Chicanery

Fiduciary


2. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Notarize

Circumlocution

Auspicious

Yeoman


3. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Detritus

Vacuous

Antebellum

Infrastructure


4. Very talkative; garrulous.

Infrastructure

Hemoglobin

Suffragist

Loquacious


5. Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Pecuniary

Parameter

Soliloquy

Acumen


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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.