Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

EVANGELIST

DEFINITION:
An enthusiastic advocate.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Trump portrayed Means — a 37-year-old Stanford medical school graduate and author who describes herself on LinkedIn as a “former surgeon turned metabolic health evangelist” — in his announcement as fully in sync with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again.”
The Los Angeles Times, 05/12/2025

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

Sanguine

Polymer

Tectonic

Acumen


2. A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Parameter

Nadir

Temblor

Metamorphosis


3. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Temblor

Metamorphosis

Facetious

Photosynthesis


4. Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Epiphany

Hubris

Fatuous

Equinox


5. Division into ordered groups or categories.

Gamete

Pecuniary

Taxonomy

Kinetic


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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.