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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. Reciprocal

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.


2. Circumnavigate

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

To proceed completely around:

Having one’s true identity concealed.

A part, portion, or share.


3. Oligarchy

A part, portion, or share.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


4. Tautology

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

To bring under control; conquer.


5. Laissez faire

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.


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