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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. Oxidize

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.


2. Expurgate

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


3. Reparation

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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.

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


4. Antebellum

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Clear to the understanding.

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

Of the same or similar nature or kind


5. Oligarchy

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


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