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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. Incognito

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

A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary:

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

Having one’s true identity concealed.


2. Paradigm

To bring under control; conquer.

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

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

To repeat in concise form. To make a summary.


3. Bellicose

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.

To picture falsely; misrepresent.

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


4. Nanotechnology

The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Of or relating to money


5. Bowdlerize

Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.

Of or relating to money

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

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


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