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. Marsupial

► A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

► Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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

2. Jovial

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

3. Typhoon

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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

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

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

4. Vacillate

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

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

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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

5. Yacht

► To proclaim publicly

► A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

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

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

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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.