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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 High 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. Quotidian

Everyday; commonplace.

To show servile deference.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


2. Wrought

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Put together; created.


3. Abrogate

A system of names used in an art or science:

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


4. Xenophobe

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Very talkative; garrulous.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Eating and drinking in moderation.


5. Equinox

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

Lacking social polish; tactless.


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