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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 High 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. Nadir

A diligent, dependable worker.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

The lowest point

To show servile deference.


2. Kinetic

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


3. Homogeneous

To bring under control; conquer.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


4. Gamete

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


5. Suffragist

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.


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