Words in the News

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

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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. Outrageous

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.


2. Repose

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


3. Stereotype

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


4. Participle

A rebirth or revival.

A proportional part or share.

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

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


5. Lichen

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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


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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.