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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. Marsupial

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Self-examination.

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

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


2. Nebula

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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


3. Jovial

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

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

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


4. Enthusiastic

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

To proclaim publicly

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

A schedule of prices or fees.


5. Polygon

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Being without or almost without hope

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

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


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