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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. terse

Brief, concise, to the point.

The force or energy of a collision of two objects.

The brink of a dangerous situation.

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.


2. interdependence

The brink of a dangerous situation.

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

Dark, faint or indistinct.

Dependent on each other


3. source

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.


4. degree

To overpower; to subdue; to put down.

Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

Bizarre, strange

An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.


5. sociable

Open resistance; bold disobedience.

Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed

Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant

Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.


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