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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. Diffident

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

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

2. Equinox

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

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

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

3. Feckless

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