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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. Interpolate

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

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

To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.


2. Hubris

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

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

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

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


3. Antebellum

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

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

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

To proceed completely around:


4. Polymer

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

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

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Eating and drinking in moderation.


5. Parameter

Eating and drinking in moderation.

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

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary


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