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. Nanotechnology

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► The lowest point

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

2. Expurgate

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

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

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

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

3. Parabola

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

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

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

4. Incognito

► Everyday; commonplace.

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

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

► Logical incongruity

5. Polymer

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► To proceed completely around:

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

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

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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.