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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 Elementary 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. construct

Firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

To influence or alter.

A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects,

To build or form something by assembling parts.


2. analyze

Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something, esp. information.

A state of confused and noisy disturbance

To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number


3. furtive

To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

The smaller number or part, esp. a number that is less than half the whole number

Capable of doing many things competently

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.


4. banish

The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

The person, place or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.

To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.

An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.


5. guarantee

Anything that assures a certain outcome.

Make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone.

Self-confidence; poise; composure.

Important with regards to (a subject or matter); relevant


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