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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. Sacrifice

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.


2. Mutation

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


3. Repose

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

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

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


4. Embargo

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Being without or almost without hope

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

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


5. Guerrilla

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


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