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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1. Tariff

A schedule of prices or fees.

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

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

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


2. Technique

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

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

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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


3. Heritage

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


4. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.


5. Eclectic

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

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


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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.