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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. Maneuver

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

The arrangement of events in time


2. Analogy

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


3. Toxin

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


4. Stereotype

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

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

Being without or almost without hope

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


5. Renaissance

A rebirth or revival.

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

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

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


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