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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. Tumult

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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


2. Metaphor

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


3. Divulge

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

To proclaim publicly

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.


4. Nuisance

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

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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


5. Spectrum

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

The arrangement of events in time

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

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


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