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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. Omnipotent

Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful.

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.

To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.

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


2. Infrastructure

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

Architectural.

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Clear to the understanding.


3. Precipitous

The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate.

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

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.


4. Polymer

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Having a bad disposition; surly.

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.

Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units,


5. Oxidize

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

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

The art or study of correct spelling according to established usage.

To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.


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