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. Stereotype

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

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

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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


2. Toxin

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


3. Malignant

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


4. Boisterous

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

To stress or emphasize; intensify

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


5. Technique

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

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


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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.