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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. Interpolate

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

2. Xenophobe

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

► To proceed completely around:

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

► Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

3. Acumen

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

4. Omnipotent

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

5. Feckless

► To make an accusation against.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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

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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.