Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

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DEFINITION:
Arousing strong attraction or interest.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Meta makes enticing claims for Muse’s capabilities.
►The Los Angeles Times, 10/05/2026

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5 High 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. Loquacious

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► To show servile deference.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

2. Churlish

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

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

3. Oxidize

► The lowest point

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► 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.

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

4. Gerrymander

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

5. Photosynthesis

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► 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.

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

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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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.