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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. Nadir

The lowest point

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.


2. Gerrymander

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

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

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


3. Enervate

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

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Not interesting; dull:


4. Pecuniary

Of or relating to money

Tumultuous; stormy.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.


5. Bowdlerize

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


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