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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 High 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. Contradiction

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Logical incongruity

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.


2. Lexicon

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

Put together; created.

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:


3. Evanescent

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy.


4. Incontrovertible

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Very talkative; garrulous.

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill.


5. Plasma

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.


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