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. Malignant

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

2. Hieroglyphic

► 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.

► A proportional part or share.

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

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

3. Deduction

► 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.

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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

4. Formidable

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

5. Boycott

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

► 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

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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.