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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. Totalitarian

Division into ordered groups or categories.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

To show servile deference.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


2. Abjure

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

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


3. Wrought

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Put together; created.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To bring under control; conquer.


4. Gerrymander

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

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

Playfully jocular; humorous

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


5. Gamete

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.

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

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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


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