Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

BILLIONAIRE

DEFINITION:
One whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more dollars, pounds, or other monetary units.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
About a dozen people took part in the “March for billionaires” on Saturday morning in San Francisco to raise awareness about the plight of the ultrarich.
►The Los Angeles Times, 02/09/2026

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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. Ellipse

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

► A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

► The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

2. Outrageous

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

3. Polygon

► Self-examination.

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

4. Chronology

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► To cringe in fear

► The arrangement of events in time

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

5. Typhoon

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

► To proclaim publicly

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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.