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 Middle 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. Vacillate

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Self-examination.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


2. Nebula

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

A proportional part or share.

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

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


3. Tempo

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus


4. Phloem

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


5. Mosaic

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


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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.