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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. Tectonic

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

Clear to the understanding.

Having one’s true identity concealed.

Architectural.


2. Obsequious

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.

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

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

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


3. Enervate

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.

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.


4. Nihilism

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.

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

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


5. Reparation

Impossible to dispute; unquestionable

An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women.

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.


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