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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 High 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. Chicanery

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


2. Yeoman

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

A diligent, dependable worker.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


3. Hubris

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Logical incongruity


4. Facetious

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Playfully jocular; humorous


5. Belie

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

To proceed completely around:

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.


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