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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. Polymer

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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

2. Contradiction

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

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

► Logical incongruity

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

3. Filibuster

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

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

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

4. Loquacious

► The lowest point

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

5. Fatuous

► 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.

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► Clear to the understanding.

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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.