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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 High 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. Interpolate

To make an accusation against.

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


2. Expurgate

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.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

To proceed completely around:

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


3. Mitosis

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.


4. Respiration

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


5. Reparation

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


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