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 Middle 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. Impertinent

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


2. Sect

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

Self-examination.


3. Boycott

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


4. Polygon

Being without or almost without hope

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


5. Repose

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


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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.