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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Interpolate

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


2. Nomenclature

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

A system of names used in an art or science:

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


3. Subjugate

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

To bring under control; conquer.


4. Auspicious

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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


5. Reparation

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

A diligent, dependable worker.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


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