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. Omnivore

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal


2. Dialogue

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


3. Participle

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


4. Boisterous

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A rebirth or revival.

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


5. Polygon

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


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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.