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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. Omnipotent

The lowest point

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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

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


2. Jejune

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

Not interesting; dull:


3. Sanguine

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

To bring under control; conquer.

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.


4. Xenophobe

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

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

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.


5. Taxonomy

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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


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