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This Week's Word In The News 

PROACTIVE

DEFINITION:
Taking action to control a situation rather than responding to it after it has happened.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
LoPilato said the policy aims to be proactive, rather than allowing more violence to take place before regulating the problem.
The Los Angeles Times, 07/20/2026

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5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Oxidize

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


2. Deciduous

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

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


3. Fatuous

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

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


4. Facetious

Playfully jocular; humorous

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Architectural.


5. Mitosis

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Very talkative; garrulous.


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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.