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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. Bowdlerize

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

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

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.


2. Evanescent

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

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

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


3. Laissez faire

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

A system of names used in an art or science:


4. Tautology

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.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.


5. Reciprocal

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Eating and drinking in moderation.


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