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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. Nocturnal

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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


2. Laconic

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

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

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

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


3. Accentuate

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


4. Renegade

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

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


5. Camouflage

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

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


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