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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. zeal

What something does or is used for.

The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

Scattered fragments, typically of something wrecked or destroyed


2. infer

Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.

A particular geographic region.

Displeasing to the eye


3. value

A particular geographic region.

Displeasing to the eye

To bump into or brush against while in motion.

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


4. effect

To influence or alter.

The result or outcome of a cause.

A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

Obvious or easy to notice.


5. persistent

Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time ; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.

An opponent or rival.

The throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it


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