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

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. Tumult

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

The arrangement of events in time

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


2. Xylem

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


3. Spectrum

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


4. Inference

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.


5. Bamboozle

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


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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.