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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1. Gargoyle

To stress or emphasize; intensify

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


2. Eclectic

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles


3. Metaphor

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


4. Analogy

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Zoology

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


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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.