Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

PROACTIVE

DEFINITION:
Taking action to control a situation rather than responding to it after it has happened.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
LoPilato said the policy aims to be proactive, rather than allowing more violence to take place before regulating the problem.
The Los Angeles Times, 07/20/2026

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

Metamorphosis

Infrastructure

Inculcate

Deciduous


2. To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Interpolate

Impeach

Churlish

Homogeneous


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

Homogeneous

Respiration

Hegemony

Auspicious


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

Polymer

Vacuous

Vortex

Circumnavigate


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

Vortex

Circumnavigate

Lexicon

Irony


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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.