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. Fiduciary

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

► 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.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► To proceed completely around:

2. Tautology

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

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

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

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

3. Facetious

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

4. Suffragist

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

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

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

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

5. Bowdlerize

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

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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.