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. Parameter

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

2. Bellicose

► 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.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

3. Hemoglobin

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

4. Nonsectarian

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

5. Oxidize

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

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

► Everyday; commonplace.

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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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.