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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 

DENIALISM

DEFINITION:
Bianco’s investigation, which includes all the ballots cast in Riverside County in November, raises questions about how he would handle the election denialism movement if he is elected governor.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The practice of denying the existence, truth, or validity of something despite proof or strong evidence that it is real, true, or valid.
The Los Angeles Times, 03/23/2026

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. Reciprocal

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

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


2. Vacuous

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Of the same or similar nature or kind


3. Expurgate

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.


4. Gamete

Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

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.


5. Feckless

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


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