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. Undulate

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

A proportional part or share.


2. Ozone

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

A proportional part or share.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


3. Impertinent

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

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

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


4. Xylem

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

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Being without or almost without hope


5. Solstice

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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

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


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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.