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. Antibody

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

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

2. Maneuver

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

► A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

► To proclaim publicly

3. Salmonella

► Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

► A proportional part or share.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► To condescend to give or grant

4. Omnivore

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

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

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

5. Inference

► Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

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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.