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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

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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. Plasma

► A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

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

► Architectural.

2. Equinox

► Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

► Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

3. Incontrovertible

► Of or relating to money

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

► Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

4. Gauche

► A diligent, dependable worker.

► To renounce under oath; forswear.

► Lacking social polish; tactless.

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

5. Antebellum

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

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

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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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.