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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 High 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. Sanguine

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


2. Chromosome

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.


3. Omnipotent

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.


4. Quasar

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


5. Subjugate

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

To bring under control; conquer.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.


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