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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. Hemoglobin

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Everyday; commonplace.

Put together; created.

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


2. Precipitous

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


3. Nanotechnology

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.


4. Euro

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

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


5. Abjure

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

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

To renounce under oath; forswear.


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