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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. Paradigm

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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

Clear to the understanding.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


2. Deciduous

Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

Architectural.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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.


3. Enervate

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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


4. Thermodynamics

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

A diligent, dependable worker.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


5. Belie

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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

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


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