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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. Formidable

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

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


2. Gargoyle

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

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


3. Mosaic

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

The supporting and water-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels; woody tissue.


4. Guerrilla

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

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

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

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


5. Deign

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

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

To condescend to give or grant

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


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