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. Detritus

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.


2. Tectonic

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

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Architectural.


3. Contradiction

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

Logical incongruity

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

To bring under control; conquer.


4. Yeoman

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

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

A diligent, dependable worker.

To make an accusation against.


5. Suffragist

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

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

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

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


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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.