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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. Lucid

Clear to the understanding.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.


2. Inculcate

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

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

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


3. Reciprocal

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

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

Tumultuous; stormy.


4. Fatuous

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

Everyday; commonplace.

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

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


5. Parabola

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

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

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

Put together; created.


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