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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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

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


2. Malignant

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.


3. Impertinent

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


4. Plateau

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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


5. Antibody

An embankment built to prevent flooding

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 movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm


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