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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. Evanescent

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

Logical incongruity

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.


2. Temblor

Logical incongruity

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

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


3. Nonsectarian

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality


4. Nadir

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

The lowest point

Very talkative; garrulous.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


5. Tautology

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

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


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