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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. Having a bad disposition; surly.

Churlish

Winnow

Feckless

Temblor


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

Recapitulate

Tautology

Acumen

Deciduous


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

Infrastructure

Lexicon

Orthography

Equinox


4. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Lugubrious

Moiety

Taxonomy

Vortex


5. Not interesting; dull:

Jejune

Enfranchise

Gamete

Precipitous


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