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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. Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Hubris

Evanescent

Subjugate

Loquacious


2. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Deciduous

Epiphany

Polymer

Photosynthesis


3. The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Polymer

Photosynthesis

Circumnavigate

Orthography


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

Expurgate

Xenophobe

Hemoglobin

Vacuous


5. A system of names used in an art or science:

Chicanery

Reparation

Nomenclature

Equinox


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