Words in the News

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

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5 High School Words

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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. Reparation

► An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

2. Nonsectarian

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

3. Lugubrious

► Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

► Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

4. Fiduciary

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

5. Antebellum

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

► The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

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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.