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 Middle 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. Vacillate

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


2. Repose

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.


3. Maneuver

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark


4. Kilometer

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


5. Renaissance

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

A rebirth or revival.


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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.