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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. Acumen

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.


2. Deciduous

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

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

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Architectural.


3. Equinox

Architectural.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


4. Vacuous

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.


5. Nadir

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

The lowest point

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.


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