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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. Laconic

The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.


2. Pulverize

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

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

To cringe in fear


3. Undulate

To move in waves or with a smooth, wavelike motion.

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

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

To condescend to give or grant


4. Vaccine

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

A cult or religious movement, a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.


5. Tumult

The quality or state of being tranquil; serenity.

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief


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