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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. Alliteration

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.


2. Rainforest

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

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

To cringe in fear


3. Parasite

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


4. Vaccine

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


5. Fallacy

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

A proportional part or share.

Being without or almost without hope

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


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