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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. Evanescent

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Logical incongruity

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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


2. Subjugate

To bring under control; conquer.

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


3. Lexicon

The lowest point

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.


4. Belie

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

A system of names used in an art or science:

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Not interesting; dull:


5. Circumnavigate

Not interesting; dull:

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

To proceed completely around:

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


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