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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. Deduction

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


2. Accentuate

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

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


3. Nuisance

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.


4. Alliteration

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


5. Tempo

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


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