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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. Wrought

Put together; created.

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

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.


2. Suffragist

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

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.


3. Hubris

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Architectural.

Of or relating to money

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


4. Quasar

The lowest point

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

To show servile deference.


5. Loquacious

To show servile deference.

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

Everyday; commonplace.

Very talkative; garrulous.


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