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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. Kowtow

► Not interesting; dull:

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► To show servile deference.

2. Orthography

► A system of names used in an art or science:

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

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

3. Soliloquy

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► 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 seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

4. Reparation

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

► To proceed completely around:

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

5. Abstemious

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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