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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1. Renegade

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


2. Quarantine

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

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


3. Bandolier

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

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

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


4. Nebula

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

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.


5. Ultraviolet

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

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


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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.