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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. Lichen

To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion

A fungus, usually of the class Ascomycetes, that grows symbiotically with algae,

Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.


2. Sacrifice

A state of uncertainty or perplexity.

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

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

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother.


3. Polygon

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

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

A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

In a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable.


4. Guru

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

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.

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


5. Sect

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.

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

Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline

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


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