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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. Enthusiastic

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A proportional part or share.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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


2. Renaissance

A rebirth or revival.

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

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

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.


3. Inference

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


4. Introspection

Self-examination.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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


5. Exult

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


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