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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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1. Nonsectarian

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

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

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

2. Homogeneous

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

► Of the same or similar nature or kind

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

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

3. Xenophobe

► Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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

► Clear to the understanding.

► Architectural.

4. Photosynthesis

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

5. Paradigm

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

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

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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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.