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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. Quarantine

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


2. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

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


3. Nocturnal

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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.


4. Suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

A proportional part or share.


5. Mutation

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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


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