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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. Jejune

► Playfully jocular; humorous

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

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

► Not interesting; dull:

2. Nanotechnology

► The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

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

► A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

► To proceed completely around:

3. Paradigm

► To proceed completely around:

► Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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

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

4. Filibuster

► An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

► The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

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

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

5. Interpolate

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

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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