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. Outrageous

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

► A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

2. Tsunami

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

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

3. Yacht

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

4. Heritage

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

► The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

5. Technique

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

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

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

► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

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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.