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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 

CONDUIT

DEFINITION:
A means of transmitting or distributing.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
It’s the only conduit for those without a direct relationship with Banksy to reach out to the artist, whose identity has never been confirmed.
The Tampa Bay Times, 08/03/2026

Words in the News Quiz
5 High School Words

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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. Vehement

Tumultuous; stormy.

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

Very talkative; garrulous.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.


2. Yeoman

A diligent, dependable worker.

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.


3. Oligarchy

Everyday; commonplace.

Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.


4. Lucid

A product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away; debris.

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

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

Clear to the understanding.


5. Precipitous

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source.

To show servile deference.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.


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