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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 

FOOTHOLD

DEFINITION:
A position usable as a base for further advance.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Growing national anxiety over the impact of massive data centers on communities has found a foothold in Greater Boston in the form of Markley’s Lowell location.
The Boston Herald, 08/10/2026

Words in the News Quiz
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. Circumnavigate

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

To make an accusation against.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

To proceed completely around:


2. Photosynthesis

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

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

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


3. Diffident

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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

Not interesting; dull:

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


4. Reparation

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


5. Contradiction

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

To bring under control; conquer.

Logical incongruity

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


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