Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

DETECTION

DEFINITION:
The action or process of identifying the presence of something concealed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He added that the district is also examining “various weapon detection systems on the market to see if any of them might be viable for us,” as well as state-of-the-art camera technology.
The Albuquerque Journal, 09/15/2025

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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. Tempestuous

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Tumultuous; stormy.


2. Lugubrious

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

To show servile deference.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.


3. Homogeneous

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Of the same or similar nature or kind


4. Gamete

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


5. Enfranchise

To bring under control; conquer.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.


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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.