Words in the News

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

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5 Middle School 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. Virtuoso

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


2. Sacrifice

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


3. Boycott

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


4. Typhoon

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

The arrangement of events in time

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


5. Commemorate

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


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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.