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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1. Yacht

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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

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


2. Metaphor

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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


3. Boisterous

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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


4. Camouflage

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


5. Guerrilla

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.


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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.