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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. Unctuous

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

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


2. Quasar

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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


3. Orthography

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

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


4. Impeach

Having a bad disposition; surly.

A system of names used in an art or science:

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

To make an accusation against.


5. Reciprocal

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

Clear to the understanding.

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.


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