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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. Bowdlerize

Very talkative; garrulous.

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

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

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


2. Paradigm

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

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


3. Oligarchy

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


4. Nadir

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

The lowest point

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.


5. Thermodynamics

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Not interesting; dull:


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