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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

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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. Hegemony

Put together; created.

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

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


2. Hubris

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


3. Inculcate

Tumultuous; stormy.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


4. Xenophobe

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.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

To make an accusation against.

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


5. Omnipotent

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

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


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