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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 

PROPOSITION

DEFINITION:
Something offered for consideration or acceptance.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
proposition 10 was considered a landmark policy.
The Los Angeles Times, 12/15/2025

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

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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. Parabola

Logical incongruity

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

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


2. Incontrovertible

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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

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


3. Deleterious

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

A diligent, dependable worker.

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

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


4. Abjure

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


5. Gerrymander

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Clear to the understanding.

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


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