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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 Elementary 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. sociable

► Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.

► To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

► Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

► The dividing line or location between two areas.

2. element

► One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

► The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

► To influence or alter.

► A great amount or number, often of people.

3. vigilant

► Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary

► Obvious or easy to notice.

► Dark, faint or indistinct.

► To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.

4. ominous

► Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen

► Open resistance; bold disobedience.

► To set fire to (something), to light (something)

► Existing or occurring at the moment.

5. imperious

► Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

► Deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

► A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

► An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or will do something.

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