Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BREACH

DEFINITION:
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The Cockroach Janata Party’s three leaders — Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka — were freed on condition that they commit “no breach of peace for one year,” Ratna Singh, the movement’s legal director, said in a social media post.
►Associated Press, 10/12/2026

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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. Auspicious

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

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► To show servile deference.

2. Pecuniary

► Of or relating to money

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

3. Hubris

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

4. Vacuous

► Clear to the understanding.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

5. Reciprocal

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

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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.