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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 Middle 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. Mosaic

To cringe in fear

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.


2. Kilometer

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

An embankment built to prevent flooding

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.


3. Sacrifice

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.


4. Heritage

Being without or almost without hope

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


5. Nebula

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

The act of resting or the state of being at rest.

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.


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