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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 Middle 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. Rainforest

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.


2. Chronology

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

The arrangement of events in time

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.


3. Typhoon

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

Self-examination.


4. Technique

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

Having or demonstrating enthusiasm

The systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


5. Tempo

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

A schedule of prices or fees.

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


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