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. Spectrum

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

Being without or almost without hope

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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


2. Tumult

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


3. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


4. Quandary

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


5. Boycott

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


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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.