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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. Sacrifice

To condescend to give or grant

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

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

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


2. Participle

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.


3. Accentuate

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify


4. Camouflage

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

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

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


5. Rainforest

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.


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