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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. Hypotenuse

A part, portion, or share.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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


2. Vortex

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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.

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

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


3. Plasma

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

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


4. Fiduciary

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

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

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


5. Temblor

Tumultuous; stormy.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


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