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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. Enfranchise

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

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

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

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

2. Epiphany

► The lowest point

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

3. Suffragist

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.