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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. Cower

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

To cringe in fear

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles


2. Divulge

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To proclaim publicly


3. Sacrifice

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

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

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


4. Spectrum

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

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

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.


5. Exult

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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


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