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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. Notarize

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

2. Photosynthesis

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

► 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.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

3. Supercilious

► 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.

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

4. Usurp

► The lowest point

► 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.

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

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

5. Chromosome

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

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

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

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