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. Exponent

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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

► An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

2. Xylem

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

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

► 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.

3. Sacrifice

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

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

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

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

4. Quarantine

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

► Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

5. Mosaic

► To cringe in fear

► The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

► Self-examination.

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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.