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 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. Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Quasar

Incontrovertible

Interpolate

Bellicose


2. Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Supercilious

Winnow

Filibuster

Parabola


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

Omnipotent

Xenophobe

Infrastructure

Totalitarian


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

Auspicious

Precipitous

Chromosome

Lexicon


5. Architectural.

Moiety

Tectonic

Reparation

Vortex


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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.