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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. Participle

► A rebirth or revival.

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

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

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

2. Chronology

► A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

► To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

► The arrangement of events in time

► Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

3. Quarantine

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

► The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

► To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

4. Cower

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► To cringe in fear

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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

5. Nebula

► Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

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