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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. Tundra

A schedule of prices or fees.

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

To take in by elaborate methods of deceit

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


2. Heritage

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

A proportional part or share.

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

The main character in a drama or other literary work.


3. Metaphor

Relating to a system of writing, such as that of ancient Egypt, in which pictorial symbols are used to represent meaning or sounds or a combination of meaning and sound.

One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol.

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

Self-examination.


4. Solstice

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

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

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.


5. Hypocrisy

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

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

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


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