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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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. Metaphor

To cringe in fear

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


2. Despondent

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

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

Being without or almost without hope

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


3. Renegade

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

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

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

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


4. Enthusiastic

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.


5. Technique

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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


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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.