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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. Circumnavigate

Division into ordered groups or categories.

To proceed completely around:

Clear to the understanding.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


2. Churlish

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.

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

Not interesting; dull:

Having a bad disposition; surly.


3. Soliloquy

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

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

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.


4. Interpolate

Very talkative; garrulous.

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

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

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.


5. Totalitarian

A system of names used in an art or science:

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


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