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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. Typhoon

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

To condescend to give or grant

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


2. Impertinent

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold


3. Alliteration

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

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

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


4. Outrageous

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.

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.

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


5. Gargoyle

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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


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