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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. Virtuoso

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

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

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


2. Voracious

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

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


3. Divulge

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

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

To proclaim publicly

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


4. Laconic

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

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

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

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


5. Phloem

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

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


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