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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. Hieroglyphic

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


2. Deign

To condescend to give or grant

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


3. Renaissance

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

A rebirth or revival.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


4. Dialogue

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


5. Deduction

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

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


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