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. Recede

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

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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

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

2. Unanimous

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

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

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

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

3. Formidable

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

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

4. Aspire

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

► In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

► A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

5. Silhouette

► 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

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

► Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

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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.