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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. Alliteration

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd


2. Unanimous

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

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


3. Immune

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


4. Maneuver

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

To proclaim publicly


5. Tumult

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

Being without or almost without hope

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


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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.