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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

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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. Abrogate

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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

To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.


2. Taxonomy

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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.

Division into ordered groups or categories.


3. Vortex

Having a bad disposition; surly.

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

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

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


4. Orthography

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

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

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.


5. Contradiction

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

Logical incongruity

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

A system of names used in an art or science:


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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.