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 Middle School Words

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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. Renegade

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


2. Flourish

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal


3. Recede

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


4. Boisterous

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

Self-examination.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline


5. Cower

To cringe in fear

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.


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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.