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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. Marsupial

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


2. Levee

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.


3. Despondent

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

Being without or almost without hope

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

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


4. Tempo

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


5. Heritage

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A rebirth or revival.


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