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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 High 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. Moiety

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Tumultuous; stormy.

A part, portion, or share.


2. Metamorphosis

Very talkative; garrulous.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


3. Facetious

Playfully jocular; humorous

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


4. Plasma

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

A system of names used in an art or science:

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


5. Winnow

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.


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