Words in the News

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

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5 Elementary Words

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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. egregious

► To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.

► To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

► The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

► Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.

2. interdependence

► An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

► To build or form something by assembling parts.

► Dependent on each other

► Emitting light; glowing brightly

3. headway

► Progress toward a goal.

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

► To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.

► One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

4. ensure

► A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.

► To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).

► A small hill or mound.

► Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied

5. repugnant

► To identify by or divide into classes; to categorize.

► Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion

► The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

► To make something by merging parts.

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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.