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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. Nihilism

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

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

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

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


2. Laissez faire

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To bring under control; conquer.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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


3. Omnipotent

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

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

To make an accusation against.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


4. Lucid

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Clear to the understanding.

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

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


5. Vehement

Division into ordered groups or categories.

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

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

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


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