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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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. Vortex

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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

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

2. Mitosis

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

3. Tectonic

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Architectural.

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

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

4. Metamorphosis

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

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

5. Nanotechnology

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

► The lowest point

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

► 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.