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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. Gamete

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Very talkative; garrulous.


2. Omnipotent

Very talkative; garrulous.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


3. Chromosome

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.


4. Nonsectarian

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


5. Reciprocal

Clear to the understanding.

Playfully jocular; humorous

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


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