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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 Elementary 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. scurry

► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.

► To exclude; to specify as being an exception.

► To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

2. brandish

► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.

► Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

► To come into view.

► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

3. guarantee

► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

► Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

► Anything that assures a certain outcome.

► The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

4. evidence

► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it

► A measurement one can compare to.

► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

5. materialize

► The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

► To make stable or firm; to confirm.

► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

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