Words in the News

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

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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. Reciprocal

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


2. Lexicon

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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


3. Respiration

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


4. Kowtow

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

To show servile deference.


5. Auspicious

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Tumultuous; stormy.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.


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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.