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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. Kilometer

A metric unit of length equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile).

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


2. Analogy

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator.

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


3. Vacillate

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

Having a backbone or spinal column.

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.


4. Exult

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant


5. Divulge

A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color.

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.

To proclaim publicly


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