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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

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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. Fatuous

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

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

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


2. Quasar

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

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


3. Wrought

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

Put together; created.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


4. Expurgate

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


5. Plasma

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

Everyday; commonplace.

The lowest point


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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.