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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. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

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

The arrangement of events in time


2. Guerrilla

The arrangement of events in time

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.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

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


3. Quarantine

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

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.

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

A proportional part or share.


4. Light-Year

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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

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


5. Decorum

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

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


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