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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Gamete

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.


2. Oxidize

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


3. Winnow

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


4. Polymer

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


5. Parabola

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.


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