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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. Xenophobe

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

► Tumultuous; stormy.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

2. Parameter

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

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

► The lowest point

► Not interesting; dull:

3. Subjugate

► A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

► To bring under control; conquer.

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

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

4. Obsequious

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► To show servile deference.

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

5. Chromosome

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

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

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

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

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