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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. Kinetic

► Division into ordered groups or categories.

► Architectural.

► Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

► Clear to the understanding.

2. Vehement

► A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

► To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

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

► Tumultuous; stormy.

3. Loquacious

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

► Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

► 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.

► Very talkative; garrulous.

4. Yeoman

► Not interesting; dull:

► A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

► A diligent, dependable worker.

► Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

5. Irony

► To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

► To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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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.