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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 proceed completely around:

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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


2. Subjugate

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

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

To bring under control; conquer.

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.


3. Mitosis

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Tumultuous; stormy.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.


4. Diffident

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

A system of names used in an art or science:


5. Bellicose

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.


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