Words in the News

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 Middle 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. Solstice

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► A rebirth or revival.

2. Wretched

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► A rebirth or revival.

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

3. Phloem

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

4. Enthusiastic

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► 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

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

5. Maneuver

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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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.