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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

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5 Middle School Words

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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. Enthusiastic

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

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

The arrangement of events in time

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.


2. Stereotype

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

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

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

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


3. Solstice

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


4. Repose

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.


5. Wretched

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion


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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.