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. Aspire

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


2. Parasite

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

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


3. Zoology

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


4. Enthusiastic

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

Being without or almost without hope

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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


5. Divulge

To cringe in fear

To proclaim publicly

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.


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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.