Words in the News

This Week's Word In The News 

INCOMPREHENSIBLE

DEFINITION:
Impossible to understand or comprehend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
“What is incomprehensible is that the structure the Commission chose is now being used to justify not carrying out the monitoring at all,” she said.
The Key West Citizen, 04/06/2026

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5 Middle 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. Undulate

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

A schedule of prices or fees.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


2. Levee

An embankment built to prevent flooding

To proclaim publicly

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Being without or almost without hope


3. Immune

Being without or almost without hope

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd


4. Renegade

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


5. Wretched

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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


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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.