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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. Hegemony

Everyday; commonplace.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.


2. Incognito

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

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

To renounce under oath; forswear.


3. Interpolate

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


4. Quasar

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

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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


5. Sanguine

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


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