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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. Obsequious

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Put together; created.

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


2. Winnow

Put together; created.

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

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.


3. Parabola

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

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

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


4. Abstemious

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


5. Lucid

Clear to the understanding.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

Of or relating to money


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