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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. Sect

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

A proportional part or share.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


2. Ozone

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


3. Chronology

The arrangement of events in time

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

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

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


4. Parasite

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

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

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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


5. Hologram

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.


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