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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. Laissez faire

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

2. Gamete

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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

3. Enervate

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

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

4. Lexicon

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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

5. Totalitarian

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

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

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

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

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