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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. Fatuous

The basic unit of currency among participating European Union countries.

Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish.

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

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.


2. Hegemony

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

A system of names used in an art or science:


3. Facetious

Playfully jocular; humorous

Of the same or similar nature or kind

Tumultuous; stormy.

A diligent, dependable worker.


4. Metamorphosis

To renounce under oath; forswear.

A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

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

Lacking social polish; tactless.


5. Paradigm

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

To make an accusation against.

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

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,


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