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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. Enthusiastic

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


2. Symbiosis

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

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

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

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


3. Exult

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


4. Salmonella

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

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

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


5. Light-Year

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To condescend to give or grant

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


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