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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. Formidable

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Yacht

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

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

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


3. Technique

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

Self-examination.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

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


4. Ozone

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Being without or almost without hope


5. Polygon

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

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

A rebirth or revival.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


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