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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. Tempestuous

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

Tumultuous; stormy.


2. Interpolate

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.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


3. Photosynthesis

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

To show servile deference.

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

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.


4. Reparation

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

Of or relating to money

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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


5. Yeoman

A diligent, dependable worker.

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

To proceed completely around:

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


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