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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. Detritus

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


2. Deleterious

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Logical incongruity

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


3. Chromosome

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Not interesting; dull:

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


4. Unctuous

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

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


5. Vehement

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

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

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


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