Words in the News

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

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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. Yeoman

► A diligent, dependable worker.

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

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

2. Deleterious

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► To make an accusation against.

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

3. Irony

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

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

4. Bellicose

► To proceed completely around:

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

► A system of names used in an art or science:

5. Abstemious

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

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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.