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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. Recapitulate

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

To show servile deference.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.


2. Moiety

A part, portion, or share.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


3. Plasma

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

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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


4. Acumen

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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


5. Wrought

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

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

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

Put together; created.


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