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. Stereotype

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

► To cringe in fear

2. Eclectic

► To cringe in fear

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

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

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

3. Typhoon

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

► The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

4. Participle

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

5. Divulge

► To proclaim publicly

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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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.