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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

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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. replenish

Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.

Anything that assures a certain outcome.

To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.


2. illuminate

The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

To clarify or make something understandable

Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.


3. waver

To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

To set fire to (something), to light (something)

Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.


4. stamina

To set fire to (something), to light (something)

Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

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

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.


5. dispel

Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish.

What something does or is used for.

To exclude; to specify as being an exception.


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