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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. Sect

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

A proportional part or share.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.


2. Rainforest

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

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

To condescend to give or grant

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


3. Ellipse

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

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.


4. Silhouette

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


5. Flourish

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.


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