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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. Despondent

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

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

Being without or almost without hope

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


2. Maneuver

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

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

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

The arrangement of events in time


3. Tundra

A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen.

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

To honor the memory of with a ceremony

A proportional part or share.


4. Introspection

One that speaks for, represents, or advocates

Self-examination.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Any of various nonplacental mammals, including kangaroos, opossums, bandicoots, and wombats, found principally in Australia and the Americas.


5. Nuisance

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

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

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

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.


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