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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 Elementary 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. To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

banish

replenish

grueling

misgivings


2. A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care

grueling

misgivings

meticulous

tactic


3. To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.

brandish

reference

furtive

jostle


4. Connection or association; the condition of being related.

jostle

contributions

relationship

conspicuous


5. Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

current

topic

persistent

evidence


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