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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. Suffrage

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


2. Ellipse

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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


3. Mutation

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

Self-examination.


4. Nocturnal

Self-examination.

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

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


5. Outrageous

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

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

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

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


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