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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. Tectonic

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Architectural.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.


2. Nonsectarian

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


3. Sanguine

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


4. Bellicose

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.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


5. Gauche

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


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