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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 High 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. Bowdlerize

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


2. Reparation

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


3. Abjure

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

To show servile deference.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


4. Auspicious

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.


5. Unctuous

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Architectural.


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