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Words in the News

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

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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. Detritus

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

Not interesting; dull:

Everyday; commonplace.


2. Omnipotent

Everyday; commonplace.

The lowest point

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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


3. Suffragist

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


4. Fatuous

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

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

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.


5. Pecuniary

Of or relating to money

Tumultuous; stormy.

To proceed completely around:

Having a harmful effect; injurious.


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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.