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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.
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

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle 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. Polygon

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


2. Bizarre

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

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.


3. Jovial

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A schedule of prices or fees.


4. Immune

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

A schedule of prices or fees.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


5. Strategy

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

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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


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