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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. Totalitarian

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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


2. Hypotenuse

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

To show servile deference.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


3. Nadir

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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 lowest point


4. Sanguine

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

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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.


5. Respiration

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

A diligent, dependable worker.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


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