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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. Symbiosis

Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective.

A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

The branch of biology that deals with animals and animal life, including the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals.

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.


2. Tempo

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace


3. Introspection

Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk.

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

Self-examination.

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


4. Immune

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

A schedule of prices or fees.

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


5. Rainforest

An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen.

A dense evergreen forest occupying a tropical region with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.

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

Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.


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