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. Rainforest

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

► A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

► A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

► To condescend to give or grant

2. Alliteration

► To condescend to give or grant

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

► Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

3. Deduction

► Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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

► Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

► A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

4. Exponent

► One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

► Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

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

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

5. Hieroglyphic

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

► The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

► 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.

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

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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.