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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. affect

To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity.

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.

A pleasant smell or odour.

To influence or alter.


2. symbolism

Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.

A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

To set fire to (something), to light (something)


3. ensure

To set fire to (something), to light (something)

A thing that is granted, esp. in response to demands.

To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

A gift or payment to a common fund or collection.


4. imperious

More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

A measurement one can compare to.

Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.


5. degree

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

To move in a quick fashion.

An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.


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