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. Dialogue

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


2. Random

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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


3. Mutation

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.


4. Outrageous

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


5. Phloem

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

A proportional part or share.

A rebirth or revival.


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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.