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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. Parabola

The lowest point

Tumultuous; stormy.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.


2. Winnow

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Put together; created.

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

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


3. Expurgate

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

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

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


4. Hegemony

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.

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

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.


5. Omnipotent

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

To show servile deference.

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

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


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