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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. Symbiosis

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


2. Renegade

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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


3. Ultraviolet

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

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.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To condescend to give or grant


4. Technique

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

Being without or almost without hope

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


5. Zoology

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

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

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


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