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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. Gerrymander

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

A part, portion, or share.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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


2. Vehement

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

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


3. Enervate

Lacking social polish; tactless.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


4. Churlish

Having a bad disposition; surly.

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

Put together; created.

Architectural.


5. Jejune

Not interesting; dull:

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


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