Words in the News

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

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5 Middle School Words

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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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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


2. Plateau

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

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


3. Recede

The arrangement of events in time

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

To cringe in fear

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


4. Inference

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


5. Tempo

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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


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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.