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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 High School 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. Respiration

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

2. Nihilism

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

3. Tempestuous

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

4. Sanguine

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

5. Facetious

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

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