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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. Salmonella

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.

The arrangement of events in time

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.


2. Analogy

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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


3. Light-Year

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

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

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

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


4. Dialogue

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


5. Pulverize

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

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


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