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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

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. Mitosis

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples.

Of or relating to money

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 cell division by which the nucleus divides.


2. Nihilism

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.


3. Churlish

Having a bad disposition; surly.

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

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.

Logical incongruity


4. Euro

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

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

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Architectural.


5. Fiduciary

Architectural.

A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.

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

Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination.


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