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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. Circumnavigate

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

A system of names used in an art or science:

To proceed completely around:

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


2. Lexicon

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

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

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Not interesting; dull:


3. Soliloquy

Not interesting; dull:

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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

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.


4. Kowtow

A diligent, dependable worker.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

To show servile deference.


5. Evanescent

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


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