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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

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Abstemious

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

2. Detritus

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Not interesting; dull:

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

3. Reparation

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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

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

4. Quasar

► 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.

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

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

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

5. Temblor

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

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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

► Very talkative; garrulous.

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