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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

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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. Deciduous

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

2. Abstemious

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► Playfully jocular; humorous

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

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

3. Taxonomy

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

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

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

4. Vortex

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

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

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

5. Soliloquy

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► 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.

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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.