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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. Quarantine

To stress or emphasize; intensify

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

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.


2. Embargo

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

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

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


3. Stereotype

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


4. Introspection

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

Self-examination.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings


5. Jaunty

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

A rebirth or revival.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


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