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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 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. Bellicose

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


2. Metamorphosis

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

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


3. Fatuous

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.


4. Expurgate

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

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


5. Incontrovertible

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


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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.