Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

DEFINITION:
A consultant who advises the presiding officer and other officers, committees, and members on matters of parliamentary procedure.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Mia Cooper, a parliamentarian for the district, brought her daughter to district meetings and state-level education forums as the girl grew up.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/09/2026

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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. Omnivore

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

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd


2. Typhoon

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

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

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.


3. Mosaic

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.


4. Quandary

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


5. Gargoyle

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


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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.