Words in the News

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

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5 Middle School Words

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1. Maneuver

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


2. Sacrifice

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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


3. Inference

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

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


4. Guerrilla

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


5. Parasite

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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


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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.