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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 High 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. Chromosome

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

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

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

2. Nadir

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

► 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.

► The lowest point

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

3. Antebellum

► Of or relating to money

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

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

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

4. Circumnavigate

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► To proceed completely around:

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

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

5. Euro

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

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► 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.

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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.