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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. Hologram

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


2. Introspection

Self-examination.

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.


3. Camouflage

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


4. Analogy

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Exult

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Being without or almost without hope

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


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