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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1. Guru

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

2. Nocturnal

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

► A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

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

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

3. Exponent

► 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

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

4. Ultraviolet

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

► 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.

5. Dialogue

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

► Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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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.