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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. Wretched

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

To cringe in fear

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.


2. Hieroglyphic

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.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

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


3. Renaissance

A rebirth or revival.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


4. Repose

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


5. Protagonist

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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


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