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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. Strategy

To proclaim publicly

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

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


2. Hieroglyphic

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

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.

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.


3. Kilometer

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

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


4. Deduction

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


5. Maneuver

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Self-examination.


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