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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. Boycott

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

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. Decorum

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

To cringe in fear


3. Labyrinth

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.


4. Deduction

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.


5. Hypocrisy

The arrangement of events in time

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

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

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


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