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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. Phloem

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

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

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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


2. Lichen

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


3. Alliteration

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

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

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.


4. Silhouette

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

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

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

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


5. Ellipse

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

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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.


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