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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 Middle 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. Chronology

The arrangement of events in time

To condescend to give or grant

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


2. Stereotype

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


3. Zoology

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


4. Quarantine

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


5. Ultraviolet

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.


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