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Words in the News

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

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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. Temblor

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

To bring under control; conquer.

Put together; created.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


2. Yeoman

A diligent, dependable worker.

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

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.

Architectural.


3. Contradiction

To renounce under oath; forswear.

Logical incongruity

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


4. Nihilism

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

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

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

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


5. Reciprocal

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Of or relating to money


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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.