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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. Laconic

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


2. Tariff

A schedule of prices or fees.

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

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

To stress or emphasize; intensify


3. Bandolier

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal


4. Typhoon

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

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

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.


5. Analogy

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


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