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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

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. Incontrovertible

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

A part, portion, or share.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


2. Gauche

Lacking social polish; tactless.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

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


3. Auspicious

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.


4. Taxonomy

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

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

Division into ordered groups or categories.


5. Orthography

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.


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