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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. Tempestuous

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

Tumultuous; stormy.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


2. Recapitulate

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


3. Chicanery

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

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Logical incongruity

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


4. Evanescent

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

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


5. Usurp

Of or relating to money

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

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


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