Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

RECIPROCAL

DEFINITION:
Given, felt, or done in return. Reward the positive or punish the negative.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
With the reciprocal tariffs, Trump is effectively blowing up the rules governing world trade.
The Albuquerque Journal, 07/14/2025

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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. Nocturnal

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To cringe in fear

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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


2. Commemorate

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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


3. Embargo

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


4. Sect

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

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


5. Suffrage

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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


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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.