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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. Respiration

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

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

2. Hemoglobin

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

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

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

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

3. Nadir

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

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

► The lowest point

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

4. Lexicon

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► Logical incongruity

5. Precipitous

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

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

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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