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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 High School 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. Polymer

Having one’s true identity concealed.

The lowest point

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


2. Oxidize

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


3. Subjugate

To bring under control; conquer.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.


4. Enfranchise

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


5. Deleterious

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

To make an accusation against.


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