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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. Dialogue

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

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


2. Quandary

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

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

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


3. Polygon

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


4. Outrageous

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


5. Flourish

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

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


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