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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. Deign

► To condescend to give or grant

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

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

2. Suffrage

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

3. Boycott

► 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

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

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

4. Tranquility

► Having a backbone or spinal column.

► Self-examination.

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

► A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

5. Bamboozle

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

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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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.

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