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. Vaccine

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


2. Voracious

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

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

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 conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


3. Bamboozle

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


4. Mosaic

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

Being without or almost without hope

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


5. Toxin

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


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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.