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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. Maneuver

Being without or almost without hope

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


2. Tsunami

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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


3. Bamboozle

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


4. Toxin

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


5. Mutation

Self-examination.

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.


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