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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. Undulate

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


2. Renaissance

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

A rebirth or revival.

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

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


3. Tundra

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


4. Impertinent

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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


5. Delegate

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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


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