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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. Tundra

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

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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


2. Flourish

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


3. Nuisance

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The arrangement of events in time

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

To proclaim publicly


4. Salmonella

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

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


5. Mutation

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


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