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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. Tumult

A disorderly commotion or disturbance.

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

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

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


2. Malignant

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

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Harmful, malevolent, injurious. Harmfully cancerous.

The arrangement of events in time


3. Maneuver

To condescend to give or grant

A movement or procedure involving skill and dexterity.

A rebirth or revival.

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


4. Dialogue

A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

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

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


5. Unanimous

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.

Sharing the same opinions or views; being in complete harmony or accord.

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


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