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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. Facetious

Playfully jocular; humorous

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.

Logical incongruity

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


2. Antebellum

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

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.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


3. Ziggurat

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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

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


4. Paradigm

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

To proceed completely around:

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

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.


5. Subjugate

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

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

To bring under control; conquer.

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


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