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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. Oligarchy

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

Eating and drinking in moderation.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.


2. Lexicon

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

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

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


3. Omnipotent

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.


4. Respiration

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

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.


5. Temblor

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

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


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