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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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1. Voracious

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

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

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


2. Repose

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


3. Tundra

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

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


4. Guru

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

To stress or emphasize; intensify

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


5. Tranquility

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


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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.