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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. Abrogate

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

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

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


2. Oxidize

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

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


3. Kowtow

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

To show servile deference.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


4. Incognito

Having one’s true identity concealed.

A part, portion, or share.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


5. Paradigm

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

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

Logical incongruity


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