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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. Equinox

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.


2. Mitosis

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


3. Antebellum

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Logical incongruity


4. Quasar

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Logical incongruity

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


5. Vehement

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.


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