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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. Obsequious

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


2. Incognito

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.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Of or relating to money

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


3. Hypotenuse

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

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

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

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


4. Deleterious

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


5. Detritus

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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

A part, portion, or share.


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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.