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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1. Quarantine

► Self-examination.

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

► To condescend to give or grant

2. Tundra

► A proportional part or share.

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

► To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

3. Stereotype

► To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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

4. Plateau

► An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

5. Ozone

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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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.