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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. Kinetic

Of, relating to, or produced by motion.

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

Having one’s true identity concealed.


2. Oligarchy

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Logical incongruity

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

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


3. Sanguine

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.

The lowest point

Deception by trickery or sophistry.

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


4. Omnipotent

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

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality

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

Very talkative; garrulous.


5. Photosynthesis

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.

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.

A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.


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