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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 Middle School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Repose

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


2. Symbiosis

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


3. Protagonist

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


4. Dialogue

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

To condescend to give or grant

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


5. Recede

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

A schedule of prices or fees.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


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