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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 

DONNED

DEFINITION:
To have put something on, as in clothing or hats.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Quarterback Matthew Stafford donned his neoprene undergarment.
The Los Angeles Times, 01/19/2026

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. Bamboozle

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

To stress or emphasize; intensify


2. Metaphor

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


3. Repose

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


4. Antibody

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

The arrangement of events in time

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.


5. Boisterous

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To proclaim publicly

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


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