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 High 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. Gamete

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► Not interesting; dull:

2. Enfranchise

► Not interesting; dull:

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

3. Nonsectarian

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

4. Photosynthesis

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

5. Vacuous

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

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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.