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 Elementary 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. element

► Connection or association; the condition of being related.

► To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

► To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.

► One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

2. method

► The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

► To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

► A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

► To build or form something by assembling parts.

3. attentive

► The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

► Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.

► Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

► A measurement one can compare to.

4. impact

► To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

► To make stable or firm; to confirm.

► The force or energy of a collision of two objects.

► Anything that assures a certain outcome.

5. conclude

► To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.

► Of a central nature, first and foremost

► A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.

► To end, to come to an end.

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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.