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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. Quandary

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

To stress or emphasize; intensify


2. Ozone

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


3. Analogy

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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


4. Wretched

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


5. Decorum

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


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