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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. Labyrinth

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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


2. Stereotype

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

The arrangement of events in time

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Having a backbone or spinal column.


3. Tsunami

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Being without or almost without hope


4. Levee

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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

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


5. Gargoyle

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark


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