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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.
This Week's Word In The News 

SIMULCAST

DEFINITION:
A simultaneous transmission of the same programme on radio and television, or on two or more channels.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He was a commentator for the Lakers alongside the venerable Chick Hearn, doing what was then a simulcast of radio and television.
The Los Angeles Times, 02/23/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Exponent

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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


2. Wretched

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A rebirth or revival.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


3. Hologram

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


4. Jaunty

Being without or almost without hope

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

To proclaim publicly

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


5. Parasite

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

An embankment built to prevent flooding

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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


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