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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 High 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. Expurgate

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

Logical incongruity

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


2. Hegemony

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


3. Nomenclature

The lowest point

Very talkative; garrulous.

A system of names used in an art or science:

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.


4. Subjugate

To bring under control; conquer.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


5. Kinetic

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


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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.