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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. Mitosis

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

The lowest point

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Eating and drinking in moderation.


2. Taxonomy

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.


3. Loquacious

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Very talkative; garrulous.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


4. Unctuous

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

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


5. Vacuous

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Everyday; commonplace.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


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