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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. Ellipse

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

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

One that takes in everything available, as with the mind.

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


2. Vaccine

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit


3. Alliteration

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

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

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

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative


4. Renaissance

The distribution of energy emitted by a radiant source, arranged in order of wavelengths.

A schedule of prices or fees.

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

A rebirth or revival.


5. Jovial

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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


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