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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. Rainforest

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

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


2. Accentuate

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

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


3. Alliteration

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


4. Participle

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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


5. Boycott

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

The arrangement of events in time

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


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