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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.
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. Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Reparation

Circumlocution

Pecuniary

Supercilious


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

Vehement

Kinetic

Oxidize

Bowdlerize


3. To make an accusation against.

Contradiction

Irony

Impeach

Tectonic


4. To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

Epiphany

Chromosome

Winnow

Nanotechnology


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

Lugubrious

Subjugate

Antebellum

Ziggurat


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