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. Commemorate

A schedule of prices or fees.

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


2. Phloem

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

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

A rebirth or revival.

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


3. Vaccine

The arrangement of events in time

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.


4. Delegate

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

To condescend to give or grant

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


5. Polygon

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

To proclaim publicly

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

A proportional part or share.


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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.