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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. Flourish

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

To proclaim publicly

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Self-examination.


2. Strategy

To cringe in fear

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 take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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


3. Alliteration

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

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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

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


4. Typhoon

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

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

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


5. Light-Year

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

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

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


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