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Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

SIMLUATED

DEFINITION:
Made to look like or have the features of something else.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Here’s the full simluated injury report:
The Boston Herald, 02/02/2026

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5 High School Words

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1. Usurp

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


2. Hubris

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


3. Ziggurat

Logical incongruity

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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

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


4. Temblor

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

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

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


5. Gamete

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

To bring under control; conquer.

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.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


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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.