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 High School Words

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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. Wrought

Put together; created.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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


2. Feckless

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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


3. Recapitulate

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


4. Oligarchy

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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


5. Contradiction

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Logical incongruity

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


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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.