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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. Decorum

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


2. Immune

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

To cringe in fear

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


3. Participle

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


4. Delegate

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


5. Embargo

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

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

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 stress or emphasize; intensify


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