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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. Orthography

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.

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

Of the same or similar nature or kind

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


2. Sanguine

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

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.


3. Circumnavigate

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

To proceed completely around:

To bring under control; conquer.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.


4. Nihilism

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

The lowest point

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


5. Tectonic

Very talkative; garrulous.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

Architectural.

To make an accusation against.


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