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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. Inference

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

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


2. Vaccine

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

A proportional part or share.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.


3. Outrageous

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


4. Solstice

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

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

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.


5. Aspire

A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.


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