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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. Tempo

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

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


2. Light-Year

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

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

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

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


3. Deduction

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

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

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

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.


4. Fallacy

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.


5. Vertebrate

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Having a backbone or spinal column.


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