Words in the News

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

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5 Middle 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. Tumult

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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


2. Hologram

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

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

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.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.


3. Technique

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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


4. Tranquility

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Being without or almost without hope

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Boycott

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

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

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


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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.