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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. Equinox

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

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

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

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


2. Vehement

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

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

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.


3. Incontrovertible

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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.


4. Omnipotent

Everyday; commonplace.

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

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


5. Tautology

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

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


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