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 Middle School Words

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1. Delegate

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


2. Deign

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

To condescend to give or grant


3. Vertebrate

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


4. Polygon

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


5. Maneuver

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


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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.