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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. Deleterious

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.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Playfully jocular; humorous


2. Temblor

Playfully jocular; humorous

A system of names used in an art or science:

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


3. Tempestuous

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Tumultuous; stormy.


4. Belie

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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

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

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


5. Interpolate

Division into ordered groups or categories.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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


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