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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 

WILDFIRE

DEFINITION:
An unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
It was not yet clear how the wildfires started, but a long drought, low humidity and strong winds were fueling them.
The Key West Citizen, 04/27/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle 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. Guerrilla

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy


2. Renaissance

A rebirth or revival.

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


3. Polygon

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


4. Ellipse

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles


5. Nuisance

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.


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