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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. Expurgate

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

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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


2. Contradiction

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

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Logical incongruity

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


3. Diffident

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

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


4. Oligarchy

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

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:


5. Pecuniary

Of or relating to money

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Division into ordered groups or categories.


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