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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 Elementary 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. apprehensive

Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.

The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.

The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.


2. jabber

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage


3. uncanny

Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

A great amount or number, often of people.

To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.

Strange or mysterious, esp. in an unsettling way


4. contributions

A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.

To bump into or brush against while in motion.

Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.


5. swagger

Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

A feeling of contempt or scorn.

A bold, or arrogant strut.


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