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 High 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. Sanguine

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


2. Contradiction

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

A diligent, dependable worker.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Logical incongruity


3. Churlish

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


4. Epiphany

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Put together; created.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


5. Euro

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


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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.