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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. Soliloquy

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

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

2. Tautology

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

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

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

3. Nomenclature

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

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► 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.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

4. Gerrymander

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

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

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

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

5. Bowdlerize

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

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

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

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

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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.