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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. Soliloquy

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

► Clear to the understanding.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

2. Nadir

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► 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.

► The lowest point

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

3. Euro

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.