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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. Parameter

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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

► To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

2. Nihilism

► The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

3. Suffragist

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

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

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

4. Orthography

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

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

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

5. Unctuous

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

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

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

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