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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. Unanimous

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

Being without or almost without hope

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


2. Ellipse

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.


3. Divulge

To proclaim publicly

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

The arrangement of events in time

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


4. Recede

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

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

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


5. Delegate

To stress or emphasize; intensify

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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


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