WORDS IN THE NEWS
USE THE NEWS
HISTORY
PULSE OF THE PLANET
NEWS VIDEO
GEOGRAPHY
FRONT PAGE
CARTOONS IN THE CLASSROOM

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

Generate your own quiz
Select a grade level
 Elementary
 Middle School
 High School
Select a quiz type
 By words
 By Definitions
Select how many questions
5   10   15   20  

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle 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. Decorum

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

► Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

► A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

2. Embargo

► Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

► The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

► A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

► A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

3. Heritage

► Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

► 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.

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

4. Stereotype

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

► The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

► A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

► The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

5. Exult

► To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

► Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

► A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

► The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Get more Quizzes 

 Elementary School    Middle School   High School  

 By Word     By Definition    5  10  15  20 Questions

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.