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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 High 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. Parameter

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


2. Infrastructure

Very talkative; garrulous.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


3. Enervate

A system of names used in an art or science:

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


4. Fatuous

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.


5. Lexicon

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

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.


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