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. Renaissance

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

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► A rebirth or revival.

2. Renegade

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

► A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

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

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

3. Solstice

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

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

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

4. Eclectic

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

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

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

► Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

5. Boisterous

► Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

► Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

► Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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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.