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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 Middle 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. Hypocrisy

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.


2. Embargo

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


3. Nocturnal

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


4. Sacrifice

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.


5. Malignant

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


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