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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. Guru

The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

Incorrectness of reasoning or belief

A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation


2. Omnivore

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

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

A proportional part or share.

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.


3. Tumult

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

To condescend to give or grant

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.


4. Ultraviolet

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant

Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 4 nanometers, on the border of the x-ray region, to about 380 nanometers, just beyond the violet in the visible spectrum.

An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.


5. Phloem

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

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

Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


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