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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1. Technique

► A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

► A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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

2. Recede

► One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

3. Laconic

► Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

► 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.

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

4. Chronology

► The arrangement of events in time

► Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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

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

5. Nebula

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

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

► A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

► To condescend to give or grant

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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.