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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 

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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. document

► A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

► A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

► To completely engage the attention of.

2. monotonous

► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

► Having an unvarying tone or pitch

► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

3. obscure

► To make smaller.

► Dark, faint or indistinct.

► Self-confidence; poise; composure.

► One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

4. swarm

► One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

► To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

► A large or dense group of insects, esp. flying ones.

5. fragrance

► To move in a quick fashion.

► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

► A feeling of contempt or scorn.

► A pleasant smell or odour.

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