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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. Decorum

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

A rebirth or revival.

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


2. Ellipse

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

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

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

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


3. Dialogue

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


4. Random

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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


5. Divulge

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

To proclaim publicly

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

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


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