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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. Homogeneous

To show servile deference.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


2. Abrogate

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

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

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

To make an accusation against.


3. Nonsectarian

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Clear to the understanding.

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


4. Interpolate

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


5. Belie

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.


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