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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. Silhouette

An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

A proportional part or share.


2. Alliteration

A proportional part or share.

A schedule of prices or fees.

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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


3. Laconic

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

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

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.


4. Tsunami

A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

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

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Grossly offensive to decency or morality.


5. Fallacy

Self-examination.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates


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