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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

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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. Usurp

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


2. Evanescent

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


3. Polymer

To make an accusation against.

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

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.


4. Lucid

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Clear to the understanding.

To proceed completely around:

Having a bad disposition; surly.


5. Nihilism

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

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

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

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.


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