Words in the News

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

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5 High School Words

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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. Euro

► A diligent, dependable worker.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

2. Hegemony

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► A part, portion, or share.

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

3. Quasar

► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

4. Interpolate

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

5. Pecuniary

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► Of or relating to money

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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.