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 Middle 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. Kilometer

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

2. Exponent

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

3. Nuisance

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

► To proclaim publicly

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

4. Cower

► Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

► To cringe in fear

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

5. Repose

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

► The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

► One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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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.