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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. disdain

A feeling of contempt or scorn.

In order of time from the earliest to the latest

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

Self-confidence; poise; composure.


2. exasperation

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

Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

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


3. primarily

A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers.

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

To build or form something by assembling parts.

Of a central nature, first and foremost


4. eavesdrop

Existing or occurring at the moment.

To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.

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

So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.


5. minority

So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

The dividing line or location between two areas.

The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number


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