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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. Omnivore

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


2. Rainforest

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

To stress or emphasize; intensify

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


3. Guerrilla

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.


4. Deign

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

To condescend to give or grant

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

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.


5. Eclectic

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

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

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


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