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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. Nebula

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

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


2. Quandary

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


3. Dialogue

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

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


4. Mutation

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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


5. Tundra

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion


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