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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. Incognito

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

2. Epiphany

► Of or relating to money

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

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

► A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

3. Parabola

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

► Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

4. Enfranchise

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

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

► Everyday; commonplace.

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

5. Xenophobe

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

► Playfully jocular; humorous

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

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

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