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. Chronology

The arrangement of events in time

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

Self-examination.


2. Nuisance

To proclaim publicly

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


3. Exponent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


4. Hologram

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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


5. Inference

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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


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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.