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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

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. Reparation

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

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

The lowest point


2. Chicanery

The lowest point

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.


3. Vortex

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.

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.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

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


4. Lucid

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

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

Clear to the understanding.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.


5. Euro

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Not interesting; dull:

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


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