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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. Euro

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

To make an accusation against.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


2. Totalitarian

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


3. Photosynthesis

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 iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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.


4. Lugubrious

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

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

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


5. Kowtow

To show servile deference.

Not interesting; dull:

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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


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