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

Generate your own quiz
Select a grade level
 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School
Select a quiz type
 By words
 By Definitions
Select how many questions
5   10   15   20  

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
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. Winnow

► Of or relating to money

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

2. Irony

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

► Not interesting; dull:

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► Tumultuous; stormy.

3. Recapitulate

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

4. Reciprocal

► Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

5. Obsequious

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

► Everyday; commonplace.

► To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions

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.