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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. Orthography

Put together; created.

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

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

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


2. Totalitarian

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

Everyday; commonplace.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


3. Notarize

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

A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.

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

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


4. Lucid

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

Clear to the understanding.

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

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


5. Auspicious

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable


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