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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. Omnipotent

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

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

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


2. Vortex

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

Logical incongruity

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

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


3. Reparation

Clear to the understanding.

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Playfully jocular; humorous


4. Churlish

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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


5. Wrought

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Put together; created.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


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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.