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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 Elementary 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. reduce

To move in a quick fashion.

To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

Open resistance; bold disobedience.

To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.


2. frequency

To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

To bump into or brush against while in motion.

Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.


3. contortion

A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

Emitting light; glowing brightly

Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

The result or outcome of a cause.


4. boundary

The dividing line or location between two areas.

To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.

Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution)

So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.


5. recuperate

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.

A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.

Timid, fearful, overly cautious

More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.


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