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 High School Words

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1. Tautology

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

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


2. Nihilism

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

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


3. Precipitous

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

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


4. Totalitarian

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


5. Incognito

Having one’s true identity concealed.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

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


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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.