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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. Infrastructure

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

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

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


2. Jejune

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Not interesting; dull:

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


3. Parabola

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

A part, portion, or share.


4. Gerrymander

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Of or relating to money

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


5. Contradiction

Of or relating to money

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

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

Logical incongruity


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