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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. Pecuniary

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

To bring under control; conquer.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

Of or relating to money


2. Antebellum

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Architectural.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.


3. Detritus

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


4. Chicanery

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


5. Tautology

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.


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