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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. Divulge

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

To proclaim publicly

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


2. Solstice

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

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.


3. Hieroglyphic

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

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


4. Deign

To condescend to give or grant

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Delegate

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

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

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


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