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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 High 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. Detritus

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


2. Abstemious

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

To show servile deference.


3. Precipitous

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.


4. Polymer

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Playfully jocular; humorous

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


5. Inculcate

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


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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.