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. Commemorate

To proclaim publicly

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


2. Antibody

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


3. Solstice

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


4. Quota

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

A proportional part or share.


5. Technique

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

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

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

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


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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.