Words in the News

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

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1. Gargoyle

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


2. Tariff

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

A schedule of prices or fees.


3. Inference

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


4. Lichen

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

To cringe in fear

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


5. Hypocrisy

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Being without or almost without hope

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.


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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.