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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

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. Vacuous

To bring under control; conquer.

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

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


2. Contradiction

Logical incongruity

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


3. Homogeneous

Of the same or similar nature or kind

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

To proceed completely around:

Very talkative; garrulous.


4. Equinox

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


5. Chromosome

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


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