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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1. Tempo

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► Self-examination.

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

2. Ozone

► Self-examination.

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

► A schedule of prices or fees.

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

3. Accentuate

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

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

► A proportional part or share.

► To stress or emphasize; intensify

4. Commemorate

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

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

5. Mosaic

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

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

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

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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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.