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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. Antebellum

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

To proceed completely around:

To make an accusation against.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.


2. Expurgate

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

Having a bad disposition; surly.


3. Polymer

Having a bad disposition; surly.

Playfully jocular; humorous

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

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.


4. Filibuster

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

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


5. Inculcate

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.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


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