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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. Tsunami

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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


2. Dialogue

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

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


3. Introspection

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

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Self-examination.


4. Tempo

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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


5. Typhoon

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

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


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