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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. Expurgate

Logical incongruity

Playfully jocular; humorous

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.

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


2. Incontrovertible

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

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane.

Lacking social polish; tactless.


3. Lugubrious

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

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

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


4. Plasma

Of or relating to money

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

The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.

Cheerfully confident; optimistic.


5. Supercilious

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

Everyday; commonplace.

Feeling or showing haughty disdain.

Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.


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