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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 Middle 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. Symbiosis

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

A schedule of prices or fees.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


2. Sect

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

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


3. Eclectic

To proclaim publicly

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

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

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


4. Deduction

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


5. Exult

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


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