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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 Middle 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. Parasite

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.


2. Yacht

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


3. Spectrum

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


4. Tundra

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


5. Tranquility

To proclaim publicly

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

Self-examination.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.


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