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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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. Dialogue

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

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


2. Laconic

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

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


3. Quota

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

A proportional part or share.

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

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


4. Gargoyle

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


5. Delegate

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


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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.