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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. Chronology

The arrangement of events in time

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

Being without or almost without hope

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


2. Quarantine

Being without or almost without hope

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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


3. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


4. Maneuver

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


5. Quandary

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A schedule of prices or fees.


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