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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. Thermodynamics

► Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

► Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth:

► Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.

► Having a bad disposition; surly.

2. Fiduciary

► Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

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

► A system of names used in an art or science:

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

3. Interpolate

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

► Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

► To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

4. Recapitulate

► Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

► To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

► Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

► The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

5. Incognito

► Having one’s true identity concealed.

► The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

► Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.

► Tumultuous; stormy.

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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.