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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. Oxidize

Clear to the understanding.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.

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

A system of names used in an art or science:


2. Obsequious

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

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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


3. Abrogate

Division into ordered groups or categories.

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

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


4. Quasar

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

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Having a bad disposition; surly.


5. Xenophobe

To certify or attest to (the validity of a signature on a document, for example) as a notary public.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

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.


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