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. Bandolier

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


2. Repose

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

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


3. Hypocrisy

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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


4. Delegate

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

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

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

To condescend to give or grant


5. Exponent

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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.