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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. Parabola

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

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

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

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


2. Reciprocal

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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


3. Parameter

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

To bring under control; conquer.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


4. Infrastructure

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Logical incongruity

Division into ordered groups or categories.


5. Vehement

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

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

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

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.