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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. Lucid

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Clear to the understanding.


2. Temblor

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

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

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


3. Circumnavigate

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

To proceed completely around:

Logical incongruity

To bring under control; conquer.


4. Nadir

To bring under control; conquer.

Playfully jocular; humorous

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

The lowest point


5. Churlish

Having a bad disposition; surly.

A system of names used in an art or science:

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

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


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