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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. Totalitarian

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.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Logical incongruity

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


2. Notarize

Not interesting; dull:

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


3. Infrastructure

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

Architectural.


4. Incognito

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


5. Euro

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

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


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