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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 Middle 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. Repose

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


2. Tumult

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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


3. Polygon

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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

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

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


4. Technique

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

To condescend to give or grant

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


5. Decorum

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


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