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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.

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

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.

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.


2. Rainforest

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

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

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

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


3. Bizarre

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

The arrangement of events in time


4. Bandolier

The arrangement of events in time

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.


5. Hieroglyphic

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 move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


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