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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. Impertinent

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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

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


2. Salmonella

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.


3. Tariff

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A schedule of prices or fees.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


4. Phloem

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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


5. Chronology

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

The arrangement of events in time


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