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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. Tempestuous

Tumultuous; stormy.

Logical incongruity

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

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.


2. Quasar

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

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

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

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


3. Nanotechnology

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

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

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

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.


4. Tectonic

Architectural.

To show servile deference.

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

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


5. Tautology

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

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.


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