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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 

INCARCERATED

DEFINITION:
Confined in a jail or prison.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is restricting access to rehabilitative programming for incarcerated people as it clamps down on overtime spending before the end of its financial year.
The Los Angeles Times, 06/29/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

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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. Incognito

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.


2. Homogeneous

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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


3. Pecuniary

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

Of or relating to money


4. Xenophobe

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

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


5. Enervate

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

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Clear to the understanding.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.


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