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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. Phloem

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

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

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


2. Hieroglyphic

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

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.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


3. Voracious

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

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

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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


4. Suffrage

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

To proclaim publicly

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


5. Undulate

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

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

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


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