Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

ADVERSE

DEFINITION:
Having a negative or harmful effect on something.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
There was no evidence of “any adverse or harmful chemical or other exposures,” he wrote.
The Boston Herald, 06/15/2026

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5 Elementary 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. topic

Disappointingly inadequate; gloomy and bleak.

Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread

Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

Bizarre, strange


2. abolish

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)

Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.


3. frequency

The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.

To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

Quick and neat in action; skillful.


4. evidence

The result or outcome of a cause.

Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

A pleasant smell or odour.

Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.


5. luminous

The brink of a dangerous situation.

To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

Emitting light; glowing brightly

The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.


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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.