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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. Metamorphosis

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Clear to the understanding.


2. Nanotechnology

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

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

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


3. Lexicon

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


4. Detritus

Put together; created.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


5. Soliloquy

To show servile deference.

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.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

To proceed completely around:


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