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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
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. Ziggurat

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

To renounce under oath; forswear.

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


2. Reparation

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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


3. Inculcate

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

Put together; created.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

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


4. Polymer

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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

Logical incongruity

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


5. Churlish

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


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