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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. Delegate

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


2. Enthusiastic

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus


3. Tranquility

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.


4. Sacrifice

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


5. Maneuver

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


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