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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 Elementary 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. swagger

Doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread

A bold, or arrogant strut.

An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant


2. method

Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant

The brink of a dangerous situation.

A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.


3. specimen

An individual instance that represents a class; an example.

Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.

To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.


4. barricade

To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.

Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.


5. conclude

To end, to come to an end.

A measurement one can compare to.

To build or form something by assembling parts.

More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.


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