Words in the News

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

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5 Middle 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. Undulate

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


2. Renegade

To proclaim publicly

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.


3. Technique

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


4. Pulverize

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Being without or almost without hope

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.


5. Ultraviolet

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


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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.