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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 Middle 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. Decorum

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


2. Strategy

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.


3. Solstice

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


4. Bizarre

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.


5. Renaissance

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

A rebirth or revival.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

To cringe in fear


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