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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. scarcity

An inadequate amount of something; a shortage

To completely engage the attention of.

To waver or be unsteady.

A particular geographic region.


2. sabotage

To attempt to stop the progression of.

A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

A great amount or number, often of people.

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.


3. destination

What something does or is used for.

To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.

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

Anything that may be possible; a possibility


4. various

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

Different from one another; of different kinds or sorts


5. headway

Dark, faint or indistinct.

The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.

To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

Progress toward a goal.


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