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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. Vertebrate

Having a backbone or spinal column.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels used for pleasure cruises or racing.

A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective.


2. Light-Year

The drawing of a conclusion by reasoning; the act of deducing.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.


3. Phloem

The food-conducting tissue of vascular plants, consisting of sieve tubes, fibers, parenchyma, and sclereids.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

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


4. Silhouette

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

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

Being without or almost without hope


5. Tundra

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

The locus of points for which the sum of the distances from each point to two fixed points is equal

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

A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation


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