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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. Aspire

Having a backbone or spinal column.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


2. Malignant

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

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.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


3. Sect

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

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

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


4. Jaunty

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.


5. Outrageous

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables


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