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 High 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. Evanescent

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

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

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

2. Enfranchise

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

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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

3. Photosynthesis

► 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.

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

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

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

4. Recapitulate

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

► The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

5. Bowdlerize

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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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.