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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. Xylem

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

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

Being without or almost without hope


2. Boisterous

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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


3. Bamboozle

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

To proclaim publicly

An embankment built to prevent flooding


4. Introspection

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

Self-examination.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

To stress or emphasize; intensify


5. Maneuver

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


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