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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 Middle School 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. Rainforest

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

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

To cringe in fear

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


2. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

To condescend to give or grant

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


3. Yacht

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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


4. Tariff

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

A schedule of prices or fees.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


5. Light-Year

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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


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