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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. Antibody

Being without or almost without hope

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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.


2. Sacrifice

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


3. Ozone

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


4. Exult

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


5. Nuisance

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


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