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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Ozone

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

The arrangement of events in time


2. Yacht

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


3. Mutation

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.


4. Outrageous

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


5. Quarantine

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


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