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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Elementary Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. attentive

A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.

Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage


2. swagger

A bold, or arrogant strut.

To follow a winding course

The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.


3. sabotage

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

Dependent on each other

A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable


4. obscure

Dark, faint or indistinct.

To clarify or make something understandable

The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.

Bizarre, strange


5. contortion

Connection or association; the condition of being related.

A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

In order of time from the earliest to the latest


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