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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. Pecuniary

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

► Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

► Of or relating to money

► The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

2. Parabola

► Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

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

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

3. Gauche

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

4. Vortex

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

5. Feckless

► Noninterference in the affairs of others.

► Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

► 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.

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

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