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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. Malignant

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct


2. Alliteration

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

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


3. Guru

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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

To condescend to give or grant

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


4. Rainforest

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

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


5. Flourish

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive


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