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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. Delegate

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

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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

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

2. Alliteration

► One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

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

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

► An embankment built to prevent flooding

3. Commemorate

► Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

► To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

► To honor the memory of with a ceremony

► Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

4. Omnivore

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

► One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

► An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

5. Sect

► A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

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

► 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.

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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.