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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. Pulverize

To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

The arrangement of events in time

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


2. Metaphor

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


3. Antibody

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus

To condescend to give or grant


4. Malignant

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder


5. Unanimous

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

An embankment built to prevent flooding


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