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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. Voracious

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

A proportional part or share.

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

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


2. Vertebrate

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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


3. Tempo

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


4. Hieroglyphic

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


5. Wretched

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

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


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