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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5 Middle 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. Mosaic

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

To proclaim publicly


2. Ellipse

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


3. Ozone

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


4. Laconic

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

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

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.


5. Rainforest

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.


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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.