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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

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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. Paradigm

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

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

► The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

2. Taxonomy

► A system of names used in an art or science:

► Everyday; commonplace.

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

3. Kinetic

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

4. Chromosome

► Deception by trickery or sophistry.

► A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

► To show servile deference.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

5. Metamorphosis

► A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

► To proceed completely around:

► To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

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

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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.