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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 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. Sanguine

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

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

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

2. Vortex

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

3. Moiety

► A part, portion, or share.

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

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► The lowest point

4. Inculcate

► The lowest point

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

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

► Clear to the understanding.

5. Bellicose

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

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