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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. Kinetic

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


2. Churlish

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

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

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


3. Photosynthesis

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.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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

Eating and drinking in moderation.


4. Interpolate

Eating and drinking in moderation.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Clear to the understanding.


5. Sanguine

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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


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