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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. Chronology

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

The arrangement of events in time

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


2. Renegade

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

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

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

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


3. Suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

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

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


4. Deign

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

To condescend to give or grant

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


5. Formidable

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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 proclaim publicly

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal


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