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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. Analogy

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


2. Malignant

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

A rebirth or revival.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


3. Nocturnal

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.


4. Hologram

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

To proclaim publicly

A proportional part or share.


5. Lichen

A proportional part or share.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,


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