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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. Facetious

Playfully jocular; humorous

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

To make an accusation against.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


2. Winnow

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

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.


3. Abstemious

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


4. Irony

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

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

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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


5. Chicanery

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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


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