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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. Xylem

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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


2. Technique

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.

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.


3. Chronology

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

The arrangement of events in time

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


4. Strategy

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

To condescend to give or grant


5. Typhoon

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

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

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


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