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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. Circumnavigate

To proceed completely around:

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Not interesting; dull:

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


2. Parabola

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

Everyday; commonplace.


3. Photosynthesis

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

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


4. Polymer

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

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

The lowest point

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


5. Incontrovertible

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


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