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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. Incognito

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

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

Logical incongruity

Having one’s true identity concealed.


2. Lugubrious

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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 predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.


3. Abrogate

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 predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

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


4. Bowdlerize

Put together; created.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


5. Evanescent

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.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Eating and drinking in moderation.


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