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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 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. Zoology

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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

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


2. Strategy

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

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

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


3. Divulge

To proclaim publicly

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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


4. Renaissance

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

A rebirth or revival.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


5. Flourish

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

The arrangement of events in time

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


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