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. Accentuate

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

► 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 stress or emphasize; intensify

2. Recede

► To proclaim publicly

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

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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

3. Nocturnal

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► To cringe in fear

4. Impertinent

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

► Self-examination.

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

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

5. Vacillate

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

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

► Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

► The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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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.