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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. Salmonella

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


2. Nocturnal

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


3. Random

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


4. Decorum

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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


5. Enthusiastic

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

An embankment built to prevent flooding

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


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