Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

SIMLUATED

DEFINITION:
Made to look like or have the features of something else.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Here’s the full simluated injury report:
►The Boston Herald, 02/02/2026

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5 Middle School Words

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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. Levee

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

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

► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

2. Suffrage

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

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

3. Maneuver

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

4. Divulge

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

► To proclaim publicly

5. Plateau

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

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

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

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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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.