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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 High School Words

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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. Hegemony

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

2. Fatuous

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

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

3. Circumnavigate

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

► To proceed completely around:

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

4. Thermodynamics

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

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

5. Churlish

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

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

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

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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.