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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. Recapitulate

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

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

To show servile deference.


2. Usurp

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

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


3. Infrastructure

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.


4. Soliloquy

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.


5. Ziggurat

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

To proceed completely around:

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.


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