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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. Vacillate

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.


2. Plateau

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


3. Strategy

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

To condescend to give or grant

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

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


4. Malignant

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Self-examination.

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


5. Zoology

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.


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