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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. Nebula

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

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

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

A diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas or both, visible as luminous patches or areas of darkness


2. Dialogue

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

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, that cause food poisoning and other diseases.


3. Immune

Not subject to an obligation imposed on others; exempt.

The arrangement of events in time

To have a great ambition or ultimate goal

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night


4. Deign

To condescend to give or grant

The main character in a drama or other literary work.

A rebirth or revival.

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


5. Quandary

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

The right or privilege of voting; franchise.

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

Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles


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