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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. Mitosis

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

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

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


2. Temblor

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

Eating and drinking in moderation.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

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


3. Plasma

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

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

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


4. Gauche

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

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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


5. Parameter

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

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

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

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


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