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. Symbiosis

A schedule of prices or fees.

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.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


2. Technique

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


3. Enthusiastic

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.


4. Exponent

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


5. Parasite

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

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


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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.