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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. Camouflage

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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


2. Vertebrate

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

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.


3. Sacrifice

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


4. Accentuate

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

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

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


5. Nocturnal

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A rebirth or revival.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


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