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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 High 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. Totalitarian

Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.

Everyday; commonplace.

A form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life,

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.


2. Parameter

A factor that determines a range of variations; a boundary

An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.


3. Laissez faire

Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.

A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.

Eating and drinking in moderation.

Noninterference in the affairs of others.


4. Hubris

Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.

The iron-containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.

To seize another’s place, authority, or possession wrongfully.


5. Fiduciary

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.

Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid.


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