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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. Renaissance

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A rebirth or revival.


2. Vaccine

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

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


3. Vacillate

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

The arrangement of events in time

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


4. Participle

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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


5. Accentuate

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).


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