Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

SIMLUATED

DEFINITION:
Made to look like or have the features of something else.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Here’s the full simluated injury report:
The Boston Herald, 02/02/2026

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5 Middle School Words

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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. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

To condescend to give or grant


2. Quandary

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

The arrangement of events in time


3. Outrageous

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


4. Stereotype

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.


5. Camouflage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark


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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.