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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. Ozone

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


2. Silhouette

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

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

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

Being without or almost without hope


3. Camouflage

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


4. Accentuate

To stress or emphasize; intensify

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

Having a backbone or spinal column.


5. Suffrage

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


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