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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. Gauche

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.


2. Oxidize

Clear to the understanding.

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.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.


3. Lexicon

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


4. Hypotenuse

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

To make an accusation against.


5. Oligarchy

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

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

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.


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