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. Facetious

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

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

► Playfully jocular; humorous

2. Taxonomy

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

3. Chicanery

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► Architectural.

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

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

4. Paradigm

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

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

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

5. Precipitous

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

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

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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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.