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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. Light-Year

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.


2. Heritage

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.


3. Tariff

A schedule of prices or fees.

To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony


4. Cower

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

To cringe in fear

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.


5. Rainforest

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


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