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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. Deduction

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

Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer.

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

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


2. Accentuate

A person with masterly skill or technique in the arts.

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

Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar.

To stress or emphasize; intensify


3. Formidable

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct

Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder

A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.

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


4. Typhoon

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

A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane.

A grotesque ornamental figure or projection.

The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.


5. Stereotype

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

To cringe in fear

A characteristic rate or rhythm of activity; a pace

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


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