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. Dialogue

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

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

2. Tariff

► A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

► A proportional part or share.

► A schedule of prices or fees.

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

3. Aspire

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

4. Alliteration

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

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► Being without or almost without hope

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

5. Hieroglyphic

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

► A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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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.