Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

SIMULCAST

DEFINITION:
A simultaneous transmission of the same programme on radio and television, or on two or more channels.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
He was a commentator for the Lakers alongside the venerable Chick Hearn, doing what was then a simulcast of radio and television.
►The Los Angeles Times, 02/23/2026

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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. Accentuate

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

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

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

2. Silhouette

► A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

► The arrangement of events in time

3. Yacht

► The arrangement of events in time

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

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

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

4. Polygon

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

5. Participle

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► A rebirth or revival.

► To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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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.