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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

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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. Ziggurat

Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

Put together; created.

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


2. Antebellum

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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.


3. Suffragist

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.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


4. Deciduous

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Everyday; commonplace.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


5. Winnow

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.


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