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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 

SUREFIRE

DEFINITION:
Certain or likely, especially to succeed.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Kirby taught himself how to count cards, a surefire way to get barred from gambling at a casino, “raking in money on trips to Atlantic City and Las Vegas,” the article stated.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal, 05/04/2026

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. Inference

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

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

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


2. Analogy

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

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


3. Ultraviolet

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


4. Ellipse

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

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


5. Wretched

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

A schedule of prices or fees.


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