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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. Oligarchy

To show servile deference.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


2. Fiduciary

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

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

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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


3. Plasma

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Playfully jocular; humorous

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


4. Enfranchise

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.

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

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

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


5. Polymer

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

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

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


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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.