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. Renegade

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

To cringe in fear

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


2. Despondent

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Self-examination.

Being without or almost without hope


3. Spectrum

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


4. Exult

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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


5. Ellipse

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

To proclaim publicly


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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.