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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 Middle 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. Deduction

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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

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

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


2. Ozone

To proclaim publicly

An embankment built to prevent flooding

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A schedule of prices or fees.


3. Heritage

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

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

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


4. Hypocrisy

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


5. Light-Year

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


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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.