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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. Technique

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.


2. Wretched

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


3. Lichen

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

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


4. Protagonist

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


5. Antibody

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

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

An embankment built to prevent flooding

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.


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