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Words in the News

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

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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. Filibuster

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

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

► Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle.

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

2. Kowtow

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

► Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

► To show servile deference.

► Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,

3. Detritus

► To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

► A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

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

► A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

4. Omnipotent

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

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

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

► The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

5. Metamorphosis

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

► A diligent, dependable worker.

► The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

► Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

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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.

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