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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. Chromosome

To bring under control; conquer.

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

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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


2. Plasma

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


3. Bowdlerize

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

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

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

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


4. Gerrymander

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

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.


5. Incontrovertible

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Everyday; commonplace.

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


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