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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. Circumnavigate

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

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

To proceed completely around:

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.


2. Impeach

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

To make an accusation against.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.


3. Circumlocution

A diligent, dependable worker.

Lacking social polish; tactless.

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

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


4. Ziggurat

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


5. Hypotenuse

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Playfully jocular; humorous

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


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