WORDS IN THE NEWS
USE THE NEWS
HISTORY
PULSE OF THE PLANET
NEWS VIDEO
GEOGRAPHY
FRONT PAGE
CARTOONS IN THE CLASSROOM

Words in the News

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

Generate your own quiz
Select a grade level
 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School
Select a quiz type
 By words
 By Definitions
Select how many questions
5   10   15   20  

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

► Clear to the understanding.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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

2. Reparation

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

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

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

3. Subjugate

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► To bring under control; conquer.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

4. Soliloquy

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

► 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.

5. Hegemony

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

► Put together; created.

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► The lowest point

Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions

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.