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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1. Enthusiastic

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


2. Divulge

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

To proclaim publicly

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.


3. Ultraviolet

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


4. Suffrage

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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


5. Zoology

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


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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.