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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. Marsupial

Self-examination.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.

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

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.


2. Kilometer

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

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


3. Hieroglyphic

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.

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

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


4. Deign

To condescend to give or grant

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


5. Virtuoso

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.


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