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. Pulverize

► To proclaim publicly

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

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

2. Sect

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

3. Nocturnal

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

► A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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

4. Fallacy

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

► Self-examination.

► A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

5. Tranquility

► The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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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.