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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. Abjure

To renounce under oath; forswear.

A diligent, dependable worker.

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

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


2. Inculcate

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

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

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


3. Photosynthesis

Not interesting; dull:

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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


4. Xenophobe

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

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

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

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


5. Detritus

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


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