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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. Unanimous

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


2. Mosaic

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


3. Enthusiastic

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


4. Hieroglyphic

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

To cringe in fear

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


5. Ultraviolet

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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 prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.


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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.