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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 High School Words

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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. Orthography

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

The lowest point

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


2. Jejune

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

To make an accusation against.

A system of names used in an art or science:

Not interesting; dull:


3. Inculcate

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

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

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


4. Gamete

Logical incongruity

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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.

Of or relating to money


5. Unctuous

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Division into ordered groups or categories.


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