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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 Middle 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. Jaunty

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


2. Immune

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


3. Ellipse

A schedule of prices or fees.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


4. Tundra

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.


5. Ozone

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


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