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. Epiphany

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

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

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

► Everyday; commonplace.

2. Deleterious

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

3. Equinox

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

► Logical incongruity

► To proceed completely around:

► 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.

4. Thermodynamics

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

► Very talkative; garrulous.

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

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

5. Nanotechnology

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

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

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

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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.