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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 Elementary 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. aptitude

► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

► To cause to float easily or gently through the air

► Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

2. translucent

► To influence or alter.

► Allowing light to pass through but diffusing it

► The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

► Emitting light; glowing brightly

3. replenish

► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

► Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.

► To make something by merging parts.

► The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

4. abolish

► Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)

► Of a central nature, first and foremost

► To build or form something by assembling parts.

► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

5. clarify

► The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it

► To completely engage the attention of.

► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

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