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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 Middle 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. Antibody

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


2. Exult

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.


3. Eclectic

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

To condescend to give or grant


4. Zoology

To condescend to give or grant

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


5. Tundra

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.


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