TIE | The Los Angeles Times in Education

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. Bandolier

► An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.

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

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

2. Malignant

► A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

► Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

► The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

► Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

3. Pulverize

► A poisonous substance, especially a protein, that is produced by living cells or organisms.

► Strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd

► To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark

► To pound, crush, or grind to a powder or dust.

4. Typhoon

► A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

► One who rejects a religion, cause, allegiance, or group for another; a deserter.

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

► To cringe in fear

5. Lichen

► The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

► The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables

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

► Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

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.

CONDUIT

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words

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

CONDUIT

Words in the News Quiz5 Middle School Words

Words in the News Quiz
5 Middle School Words