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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

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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. Loquacious

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Very talkative; garrulous.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


2. Totalitarian

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

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


3. Evanescent

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.


4. Chromosome

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

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

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

To show servile deference.


5. Notarize

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

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

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

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


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