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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 High 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. Ziggurat

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Not interesting; dull:

To make an accusation against.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.


2. Pecuniary

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

Of or relating to money

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


3. Incognito

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


4. Vortex

Put together; created.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.


5. Polymer

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


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