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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary 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. To clarify or make something understandable

influence

majority

illuminate

value


2. Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.

recluse

apprehensive

subside

analogy


3. The quantity of motion of a moving body; the impetus gained by a moving object

analogy

meander

sabotage

momentum


4. To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.

brandish

pertinent

monotonous

abolish


5. To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

abolish

foresight

waver

obscure


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