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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. Alliteration

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


2. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


3. Boycott

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

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


4. Malignant

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A proportional part or share.

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.


5. Guerrilla

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


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