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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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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. Aspire

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


2. Yacht

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


3. Enthusiastic

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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


4. Typhoon

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

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

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

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


5. Bizarre

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


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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.