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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. Silhouette

To cringe in fear

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


2. Ultraviolet

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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.


3. Nuisance

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


4. Spectrum

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


5. Impertinent

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A rebirth or revival.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

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


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