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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 High 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. The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Equinox

Enervate

Hemoglobin

Precipitous


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

Moiety

Suffragist

Metamorphosis

Deciduous


3. Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Fatuous

Contradiction

Homogeneous

Laissez faire


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

Nomenclature

Lexicon

Nadir

Soliloquy


5. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Vacuous

Temblor

Plasma

Interpolate


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