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 High School 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. Deleterious

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Having a harmful effect; injurious.

2. Fatuous

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

3. Wrought

► A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

► Put together; created.

► Of or relating to money

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

4. Fiduciary

► Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

5. Contradiction

► Logical incongruity

► A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

► To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

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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.