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. Feckless

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

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

2. Deciduous

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

3. Obsequious

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

4. Bowdlerize

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

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

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Tumultuous; stormy.

5. Hemoglobin

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

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

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

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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.